Dom Nicastro of Health Leaders Media has an item today about how KPMG, the company hired by OCR to implement the HITECH-mandated HIPAA compliance auditing plan, had its own data breach last year. That breach was covered at the time on PHIprivacy.net, here. Dom writes, in part: Asked if OCR considered the KPMG involvement on…
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NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets' identities
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…
Why Hackers Find Many US Companies Easy to Hack?
Why do big companies fall prey to cyber attacks very easily? According to hackers taking part in Defcon conference, the world’s largest hacking convention in Las Vegas, workers at big corporations are poorly trained in security, which makes it “ridiculously easy” for hackers to trick them and reveal key information to plan cyber attacks against…
UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…
UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…
FL: Pasco County diners become credit card fraud victims
Jamie Klein reports: Eight local victims of credit card fraud had one thing in common: They had eaten at the Mugs n’ Jugs restaurant on U.S. 19 in Port Richey before noticing fake charges on their cards. Authorities say former Mugs n’ Jugs waitress Kathryn Shana’e Perez used a “skimmer,” a scanning device that captures…