Lari Barager provides a useful reminder as to how mental health records can lose their confidentiality protection: The psychologist who presented the controversial “affluenza” defense for teenager Ethan Couch has been ordered to turn over his records for a civil trial. Dr. Dick Miller treated Couch and his parents after the 16-year-old killed four people…
Month: September 2014
Commentary: Aventura Hospital breaches should trigger enforcement actions by HHS & FTC, but will they?
For years – even before the mainstream media caught on to the epidemic – PHIprivacy.net had been reporting cases of insider data theft for tax refund fraud schemes and calling special attention to Florida. By now, everyone seems to acknowledge that Florida is a hotbed of such crime. Yet despite this growing recognition of an ongoing and serious problem,…
Hackers Steal Usernames And Passwords Of 5,000 Government Recruiters From NSA And Other Services
Giuseppe Macri reports: Hackers responsible for stealing the account information of 5,000 government recruiters on GovJobs.com may be preparing to impersonate recruiters and gain access to classified information with the credentials of clearance-holding job seekers. California security firm IntelCrawler discovered the security compromise of usernames, emails and passwords belonging to recruiters from every military service, multiple…
Experts Condemn eBay After XSS Attack Puts Users At Risk
Tom Jowitt reports: The attack on eBay was a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack, in which users were redirected to a spoof website designed to steal their credentials. It is not known at this stage, how many users have been affected, said the BBC. “It would be nice to think that eBay, one of the world’s most popular…
Student Freya Newman pleads guilty to hacking Frances Abbott design scholarship files
There’s an update to this incident. Nicola Berkovic reports that Freya Newman pleaded guilty. She faces up to two years in jail when she’s sentenced next month.
CO: Sensitive mortgage documents found dumped behind Centennial office building
Jaclyn Allen reports that a passerby discovered boxes of folders with what appeared to be mortgage information files: The folders have one company in common, Colorado First Commercial Mortgage, which has been out of business in Colorado for more than a decade. But wait, there’s more, it seems. When the Sheriff’s office went to investigate,…