Brad Conaway reports that Gibson General Hospital has mailed letters to 29,000 patients informing them that their name, address, Social Security number and/or clinical information may have been on a laptop stolen from an employee’s home on November 27. Unfortunately, as the hospital explains in its statement and FAQ, the hospital cannot determine with any…
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As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. This site was just moved to its…
Brigham and Women’s Hospital statement regarding the theft of a computer
I recently noted that HHS’s breach tool had revealed some breaches we hadn’t known about. One of them was from Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts. I contacted them to request a copy of their statement or press release, and was told that because there were less than 500 patients affected in Massachusetts, they had…
Cabinet for Health and Family Services notifies 1,090 Medicaid patients after subcontractor's employee fell for a scam
Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) has issued a statement disclosing a recent breach: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is informing 1,090 Medicaid clients by letter of a computer security breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (HP ES), the vendor…
Out with the old, in with the new
As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. Within the next few days, DataBreaches.net will…
Six Long Island men charged with using stolen Social Security numbers in three different tax refund fraud schemes
So the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York issued a press release on December 20 describing how 6 men were indicted for their roles in three tax refund fraud schemes. The three schemes resulted in more than 11,000 false income tax returns seeking refunds up to $73 million. According the…