Steve Barrie reports: The private medical records of more than 1,300 patients and/or their guarantors were endangered for a time earlier this month when a Loma Linda University Medical Center employee took home documents against hospital policy. The records have been secured and the employee fired, said Briana Pastorino, spokeswoman for the medical center, in…
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New York City Public Advocate notifies web site submitters of security breach, but did they downplay its scope?
It felt like an exercise in futility, but on Christmas Day, I started making phone calls to alert the NYC Office of the Public Advocate that their database had been hacked and personal and sensitive information of those seeking assistance had been exposed. No one ever called me back, but having provided specific details to…
ALCU sues state of Alaska, seeks the return of medical records seized from Ketchikan clinic
With all of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecutions that have gone on and are going on around the country, have you ever thought about whether your patient records with sensitive information are winding up in the hands of non-medical personnel or how many people might have access to them? Shannon Haugland reports that the…
Update: SpecialForces.com hackers acquired 8,000 credit card numbers
On December 14, I became aware of a data dump from a hack of SpecialForces.com, a business that caters to those seeking military gear. As is our now informal policy, I waited a bit to post it to DataLossDB.org so that the firm would have a chance to get their customers’ data removed from the…
Preliminary analysis of Stratfor data dump (updated)
Identity Finder has analyzed some of the data released from the Stratfor hack: 50,277 unique credit card numbers, of which 9,651 are not expired 86,594 email addresses, of which 47,680 are unique 27,537 phone numbers, of which 25,680 are unique 44,188 encrypted passwords, of which roughly 50 percent could be easily cracked 73.7 percent of decrypted passwords…
California Amendment Mandates A.G. Notification For Major Data Breaches
A reminder that California’s new breach notification law goes into effect on January 1. From Loeb & Loeb: Under the revised law, when the security of consumer personal information is breached, the business that possessed the information must include in its notice to consumers: A list of the types of personal information that were the…