CORRECTION AND UPDATE: See this email and documentation from Professor Bowne. It seems that the media reporting on a breach involving patients at E. A. Conway Medical Center was inaccurate in some important respects, with the inaccuracies stemming from the Louisiana State University Health System‘s notice about the breach. To summarize: Professor Sam Bowne of City…
Month: August 2014
Restaurant Mizado Cocina says customer credit card data breached by hacker
Katherine Sayer reports: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers’ credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant’s point of sale system between May 9 and July 18. The business discovered that a hacker installed a previously unidentified malware called Backoff, which targets point of sale systems, on…
US won't reveal records on health website security
Jack Gillum of AP reports: After promising not to withhold government information over “speculative or abstract fears,” the Obama administration has concluded it will not publicly disclose federal records that could shed light on the security of the government’s health care website because doing so could “potentially” allow hackers to break in. The Centers for…
FTC Slams Wyndham Bid For Docs On Data Breach Interviews
Law360 reports: The Federal Trade Commission told a New Jersey federal judge on Friday that Wyndham Worldwide Corp. can’t demand the FTC’s work product, saying the agency sent Wyndham all the information it could about its interviews of consumers allegedly harmed by data breaches that cost over $10.6 million. Read more on Law360 (subscription required)….
KS: Online data breach affects employees of Children’s Mercy Hospital
Why is this first being disclosed now when other affected entities disclosed in March? Was Staywell late in notifying or OnSite Health Diagnostics, or….? Alan Bavley reports: A security breach has been discovered in an online scheduling application used two years ago to register more than 4,000 Children’s Mercy Hospital employees and spouses for a wellness program….
Thousands of veterans notified after their information was left in a ladies' restroom
The South Carolina VA incident wasn’t the only large incident the Veterans Administration reported to Congress for July. In a separate incident, a folder containing multiple patients’ information including full names, SSN’s, and other medical information was found in a ladies restroom in the main lobby of the medical center in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 30….