C. Johnson reports: A benefits clerk, who was busted while about to undergo liposuction surgery using fraudulently-obtained credit card information from one of her victims, has pleaded no contest to identity theft. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office says Mia Garza, 31, was accused of stealing personal identification information from more than 400 Kaiser Permanente…
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OH: Children’s Private Documents Made Public
An investigation continued on Wednesday to determine the person who failed to destroy private documents from a foster care and left them sitting outside near a recycling bin on the north side. The files contained personal information including medical information, criminal records and details of the children’s troubled past, 10TV’s Andy Hirsch reported. Arlene Davey,…
IE: Patient data leak not confined to Tallaght hospital, says chief
Elaine Edwards reports: The scope of a data breach involving confidential patient information is much wider than just Tallaght hospital in Dublin, the hospital’s acting chief executive has indicated. The hospital yesterday admitted there had been “unauthorised access and disclosure” of material sent to the Philippines for transcription. Its arrangement with Irish-based company Uscribe, which…
How sweet it isn’t: Hershey notifies some web site users of a hack
A reader sent in this breach notification he received yesterday. Stay with it because although it starts out talking about the security of their recipes and how important accuracy is to them, eventually they get around to notifying people that their names, dates of birth, street and e-mail addresses, and passwords may have been accessed…
NHS security breach as patients' letters posted with security codes on envelopes
Martin Beckford reports: At least 216 letters have been posted with security codes for door entry and key safe boxes printed on the front of the envelopes. The confidential information is used by carers and nurses to gain entry to immobile patients’ homes. But it was wrongly added to records on the Personal Demographic Service, part…
IG: Contractor Improperly Accessed VA IT
Eric Chabrow reports: The Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general substantiated allegations left on a departmental hotline last summer that IT contractors without appropriate security clearances improperly gained access to the VA’s electronic health record system. Belinda Finn, assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations, wrote in an audit dated July 27, that contractor personnel improperly shared user accounts…