A recent update to HHS’s public breach tool shows that Western Regional Center For Brain And Spine Surgery reported a breach affecting 12,000 patients. The breach began on November 28, 2011 until June 29, 2012 and involved “theft, network server.” A letter sent to patients, dated July 9, 2014, explains that on or about May…
Month: August 2014
Erie feds: IDs stolen from NYC welfare records
Lisa Thompson reports: More than 400 of the identities stolen in a massive Erie federal wire fraud case appear to have been lifted from the case records of New York City public assistance clients, a federal prosecutor said. Federal investigators believe one of the Nigerian defendants recently indicted in Erie in a $10 million identity…
Target’s Data Breach Is Going To Cost The Company Even More Than It Previously Thought
Myles Udland reports: Target’s data breach just got more expensive. In a statement, the retailer said its second quarter earnings will include a $148 million charge related to losses regarding the massive data breach which occurred during last year’s holiday shopping season. This is more than the company previously estimated. Read more on BusinessInsider
NIST Unveils Security, Privacy Control Assessment Guide Draft
Anna Forrester reports: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft guidance for federal agencies, contractors and the intelligence community to evaluate the privacy and security controls used on federal information systems and information technology networks NIST said Friday that the “Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations: Building Effective Assessment Plans” document (SP…
Data Breaches And Notifications: A Contrarian View? Or More Of The Same?
AlertBoot writes: The Wall Street Journal has an article on how certain executives are questioning the value of notifying the general public on company data breaches. The pay-walled article notes that there are valid reasons against more transparency. The thing is, most of these so-called reasons are self-serving – which is why 47 states have laws requiring…
Ca: 1,628 patients at Kamloops hospital had privacy breached
Dale Bass reports: Royal Inland Hospital has advised 1,628 patients their privacy has been violated. Nancy Serwo, acting administrator at the hospital, said two boxes of records were returned to the hospital on June 16 after they were discovered in a filing cabinet the hospital had donated elsewhere last year. The best estimate of when…