June 16, 2011 (Brighton, CO) ?? Platte Valley Medical Center (PVMC) is undertaking an internal investigation into alleged identity theft by a former contract agency nurse who was engaged by PVMC from May 2010 to January 13, 2011. He was terminated by the hospital on that date for cause. That cause is unrelated to the…
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Hospital turns to palm reading to ID patients
Lucas Mearian reports: NYU Langone Medical Center said it is the first hospital in the Northeast to use a biometric infrared scanning system that converts a digital palm image into a unique patient ID. The technology, called PatientSecure is a biometric reader that uses an infrared light to map an image of the blood-flow pattern…
Fraud Starts After Lulzsec Group Releases E-Mail, Passwords
Robert McMillan reports: Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it. “They even had me pay for one-day shipping,” she said via…
Part of LulzSec data dump is from Australian entities
In an earlier blog entry tonight, I noted that 12,000 of 62,000 email addresses and passwords posted by LulzSec today came from WriterSpace.com. It appears that the dump also contained a number of people in Australia. ABC News in Australia reports: The group, which took down the CIA website yesterday, has leaked 62,000 worldwide email…
Out of the Closet After a Hack
Ben Worthen and Anton Troianovski report: … How Epsilon handled to the breach is representative of how companies are shifting their responses to hacking incidents. In the past, companies were typically caught off guard when a breach occurred and responses were often flat-footed, requiring updates and further clarifications to concerned customers. Now an industry of…
Stolen laptops could put student, staff information at risk
Matt Brennan reports: Aurora resident Joy Smith was shocked when she opened her mail a few days ago. She had received a letter from the Harrisburg Project, a data storage subcontractor who works with the Illinois State Board of Education. The letter said two laptops had been stolen from a van being used by Harrisburg…