Another incident added this week to HHS’s breach tool was reported by Jonathan Noel, M.D. of Indiana. I could not find a web site or media coverage for the incident, but did find a substitute/public notice had been published about the breach in Paoli New Republican. The full notice is not available without subscription and login,…
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3,116 NEA Baptist Clinic patients notified after web site hacked
Listed in the most recent batch of updates to HHS’s breach tool was an entry for NEA Baptist Clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A statement on the clinic’s web site, which I found through a Google search and not via a link from their home page, says: NEA Baptist Clinic’s former public website was compromised by…
Top Tory ‘lost voters’ personal info’ days before ID fraud week
Anna Leach reports: Just days before the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week on Monday, the Prime Minister’s chief policy advisor Oliver Letwin has been snapped binning what appear to be documents containing personal information in a public park. The discarded documents are said to include the addresses of Letwin’s constituents in West Dorset,…
SEC guidance about coming clean about data breaches
Emma Woollacott reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered companies to disclose security breaches, following a year in which several organizations have been criticized for revealing details late, if at all. “Cyber incidents may result in losses from asserted and unasserted claims, including those related to warranties, breach of contract, product recall and…
Credit card data stolen from Chili’s restaurant at Yokosuka
Matt Burke and Trevor Andersen report: Hackers breached a computer server at Chili’s Grill & Bar Restaurant at Yokosuka Naval Base, stealing credit card information and running up erroneous charges, according to Navy officials. “We’ve received about 17 complaints so far,” base spokeswoman Michelle Stewart said Thursday. She added that officials don’t yet know when…
Social Security kept silent about private data breach
Thomas Hargrove writes: The Social Security Administration has failed to inform tens of thousands of Americans that it accidentally released their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers in an electronic database widely used by U.S. business groups. The federal agency has kept silent about a potentially harmful security breach of the personal data…