East Idaho News reports: A man in Ammon is upset after he found several boxes containing medical records and other personal information behind his workplace. KIDK reports Wes Dustin found boxes of information from The Children’s Center in a dumpster. The documents were seven to eight years old. An employee for Grand Teton Storage left…
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CCS Medical employee may have accessed and disclosed Social Security numbers for a tax refund fraud scheme
Although it’s flown under the media’s radar so far, CCS Medical has notified states, law enforcement, HHS, and the IRS that an employee may have accessed and disclosed customers’ and patients’ Social Security numbers for a tax refund fraud scheme. And yes, this took place in Florida. Interestingly (to me, anyway), the dates of possible…
And yet another contractor breach
Workers United attorneys have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an unnamed contractor had notified WU on October 25th that a hard drive containing some retirees’ names and Social Security numbers had been stolen from their office on October 13th or 14th. Notification letters were mailed to those affected on or after November…
Florida's War on Pill Mills Is Also a War on Patient Privacy
Mike Riggs writes: An anti-drug taskforce in Seminole County has illegally confiscated the records of more than 5,000 patients, according to theOrlando Sentinel. As part of their investigation into Dr. Vincent Mamone and 29 of his patients, agents with Sanford’s City-County Investigative Bureau received a warrant to seize “business and financial records, prescription records, charts for 29 patients,…
One year later, Jetro/Restaurant Depot is breached again (update2)
It was last year at about this time that we first got wind of an incident involving food services wholesaler Jetro/Restaurant Depot. Malware inserted in their card payment system had exfiltrated mag stripe data (names, card numbers, card expiration dates, and cvv codes) to a server in Russia between late September 2011 and early November…
Verizon DBIR Researchers’ Predictions for 2013 Threats
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Although many security experts predict that the most likely data breach threats organizations will face in 2013 include cloud exploits, mobile device attacks and all-out cyber war, “Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) researchers have reached a far different conclusion: The most likely threats involve authentication attacks and failures, continued espionage and…