Bill Lawson provides some additional details on a previously noted breach: Pulaski County Special School District officials have identified Maumelle’s new finance director as the source of missing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 1,100 current and former district teachers and other employees. District spokesman Deb Roush of Maumelle says Tasha Thompson was…
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IL: Woman sentenced to four years for aggravated identity theft
The Rock River Times reports: Elizabeth Schmidtke, 27, pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Dec. 16. In May 2011, City of Rockford detectives began an investigation into photocopied checks that were located in another state but belonged to patients at a local medical…
Data Security: Your Information, Their Loot
According to the DataLossDB project run by the Open Source Foundation, hundreds of millions of medical records, bank account numbers, names, and addresses were stolen or accidentally leaked in 2011. Read the article by Evan Applegate in Bloomberg Businessweek.
OR: Computer stolen from state office contains private information
A computer believed to be stolen from the Department of Human Services (DHS) Gateway Center in Springfield contained private information for approximately 3,000 individuals. For many, current addresses are not available to send individual notifications by U.S. Mail. DHS is notifying involved individuals by e-mail and through this media alert that they may be at…
Senate Hearings Focus on Lack of HIPAA Enforcement, Final HITECH Rule
Rachel Grunberger writes: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law recently held a hearing to discuss federal enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, entitled “Your Health and Your Privacy: Protecting Health Information in a Digital World.” In…
MS: Security breach affects Pearl River Resort, officials report
A possible breach in security for systems utilized in processing credit card transactions at Pearl River Resort is currently being investigated. Resort officials say they are closely monitoring the situation and have taken every precautionary measure necessary to protect guests’ confidential personal information. According to resort officials, there are internal and external teams investigating the…