Last month I noted a breach involving AssureCare Risk Management (ARM) that affected employees and their dependents at Reznick Group. ARM had notified Reznick that there had been a series of attempted network intrusions coming from IPs overseas and even domestically. In response to the intrusions, ARM contracted with Kroll to investigate the attacks that…
Author: Dissent
Are medical-data breaches overreported?
Jay Cline writes: The Eli Lilly employee whose programming glitch exposed the e-mail addresses of almost 700 Prozac users to each other didn’t know he was making history. Since that day in June 2001, hundreds more US healthcare organizations have reported medical-data breaches. As a result of those reports, federal and state health agencies have…
Mind-boggling statistic of the day
[TalkTalk] estimates that more than 700,000 attempts at identity theft were also mounted on Britain’s homes during the first quarter of 2011… Source/more: ISPreview.
UK: Worker sacked in data breach
A Blackpool Coastal Housing worker was sacked after a serious breach of security left confidential tenants data at risk. Fuming Blackpool Coastal Housing (BCH) residents contacted The Gazette after the details of more than 80 tenants – some living in sheltered accommodation – were taken away on a computer memory stick. The female BCH worker…
OH: Some ProMedica patients worried about accounts after paper mix-up
Tim Miller reports: A mix-up from a mail sorting machine is leaving some ProMedica patients worried about the security of their personal information. Saturday morning, Maria Rodriguez opened a letter from ProMedica, which said she may be eligible for financial assistance to pay her bill at Flower Hospital. She goes there for blood tests to…
HI: Criminal Charges Possible For Cop In Facebook Scandal
Keoki Kerr reports: KITV 4 News has learned prosecutors and police are trying to bring criminal charges against a Honolulu police officer who posted a hospital-bed photograph of an alleged thief on his Facebook page. The Honolulu Police Department began an internal affairs investigation after KITV 4 News notified the department of the photo Monday….