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Beth Israel reports potential data breach (update2)

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Hiawatha Bray reports: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is notifying more than 2,000 of its patients that some of their personal information may have been stolen from a hospital computer. The hospital said today that an unnamed computer service vendor had failed to restore proper security settings on the computer after performing maintenance on it….

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JLAudio responds to hack; notifies consumers to change their passwords

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve heard back from JLAudio, who confirms that they were hacked.  A spokesperson for the firm indicates that the hacked database is maintained by a third party vendor whom they declined to name.  The site was used by customers to upload pictures of their cars showing their JLAudio systems.  The picture gallery has been removed…

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Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010.   Then they settled…

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Hacker: JLAudio database hacked; users’ information posted online

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

The hacker known as Abhaxas (@Abhaxas on Twitter) has uploaded a database with what appears to be 4,827 JLAudio’s users’ first and last names, street addresses with city and zipcode, ages, userIDs, e-mail addresses, and plain text passwords. In a preface to the data dump, Abhaxas writes: I warned you guys multiple times, but it…

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Peeking at medical records an issue for health centers

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

Barbara Cotter reports: A Colorado Springs city health employee recently accused of inappropriately accessing about 2,500 Memorial Health System patient records claimed that “it’s pretty damn common” for medical professionals to peek at files for unwarranted reasons. “Common” might be overstating things, but statistics suggest it happens more often than patients might realize. Since 2008,…

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Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Dissent

If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010.   Then they settled…

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