I previously noted that Choices, Inc. in Indiana reported a hacking incident on May 10 affecting 550 clients at their Adult & Child Care Center. I was unable to find any additional details on this incident at the time I posted the entry, but now it appears that at least two other Choices, Inc. facilities were…
Author: Dissent
Kindred Healthcare reports theft of safes containing patient data backups
Kindred Healthcare Inc. (Kindred Transitional Care And Rehablitation) reported a burglary of their Sellersburg, Indiana facility on June 1. The theft of patient data affected 1,504, according to their report to HHS. The burglary appears to the second burglary experienced by Kindred this year. A July 25 Notice on their web site explains: Sometime between…
Council reassures staff following data breach
Here come another fine. Southern Reporter reports a council has been given notice of a fine after 676 employee records were improperly disposed of in September 2011: SCOTTISH BORDERS COUNCIL is facing a major fine for data breaches after hundreds of pension records were sent for recycling. However, the council has reassured staff it is…
Sega Japan Warns of SEGA ID Security Breach
Tristan Oliver writes: Special Correspondent Shayne Edwards of SonicRadio.Net alerted TSSZ to a security alert issued by Sega of Japan today for users of the SEGA ID system. The E-Mail, in Japanese, confirms attempts by “a malicious third party” to login to numerous SEGA ID accounts. It is not clear how the compromise happened, or what, if…
Privacy laws complicate exchange data-sharing: Pritts
Rich Daly reports: Strong state privacy laws continue to complicate health information exchanges’ efforts to ease health-data sharing, a senior federal health technology official said Monday. And a key to overcoming such obstacles may be greater use of meta tags. Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…
Former BPO employee arrested for credit card fraud
Another BPO/outsourcing breach involving an insider: A former BPO employee was arrested from his Southwest Delhi residence on Sunday for allegedly using stolen credit card details to make purchases worth Rs 11 lakh from an e-commerce website — mydala.com. […] Jha, police said, is a commerce graduate from Delhi University’s School of Open Learning and…