Glad to see this announcement from HHS/OCR: Since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the subsequent implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule, OCR has prioritized investigation of reported breaches of protected health information (PHI). The root causes of…
Month: August 2016
Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores in U.S., Canada
Brian Krebs reports: Clothing store chain Eddie Bauer said today it has detected and removed malicious software from point-of-sale systems at all of its 350+ stores in North America, and that credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach. The acknowledgement comes nearly…
Patient info from Missouri clinic hacked by TheDarkOverlord remains online and available. Why?
In a post yesterday, I reported that protected health information and identity information of patients of Athens Orthopedic Clinic that had been leaked online by hackers remained available to anyone who knows where to look for it. Although it’s frustrating and understandably worrying to patients, I give AOC credit that they tried to find the leaks and plug them. I…
Data for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Data breach index service LeakedSource has told Softpedia that it has received the full database and source of Leet.cc, a service for creating and running Minecraft Pocket Edition servers. According to a LeakedSource spokesperson, the database includes records for 6,084,276 users that have signed up with Leet.cc. For each user, the data included a username,…
Former N. Bergen school employee spared prison in documents case
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A former North Bergen school board employee charged with taking confidential documents from the district to allegedly use them in a discrimination lawsuit will have the charges dropped when she completes a six-month term of supervised release. School board clerk Ivonne Saavedra filed her suit against the North Bergen Board of Education…
Audit of Pittsford Central School District by NYS Comptroller
An audit concerning: Security of Personal, Private and Sensitive Information (PPSI) on Mobile Computing Devices and Extracurricular Cash Records and Collections Report of Examination Period Covered: July 1, 2014 – January 21, 2016 Of relevance to this site: The Pittsford Central School District (District) is governed by the Board of Education (Board), which is composed…