A recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates that the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Azle, Texas reported a breach involving the PHI of 9,922 patients. I did locate a breach notice on the hospital’s web site, although it was not immediately apparent from the home page, and I had to click on the “About…
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Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay security breach affects 156,000 patients? (updated)
A recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates that the Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay, Inc. in Florida reported a breach involving the PHI of 156,000 patients. The incident reportedly occurred on or about November 10 and was coded by HHS as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving the provider’s network server. So far I haven’t…
UK: Wiltshire Council documents found in wheelie bin
An investigation has been launched after a bag full of birth registrations and internal council emails was found in a household bin in Wiltshire. A couple from Westbury found the Wiltshire Council documents in their wheelie bin soon after it had been emptied. The documents were traced back to Trowbridge. A council spokesman apologised and…
CA: Arrest made in Laguna Beach credit card skimming
Claudia Koerner reports: Police arrested a 27-year-old Glendale man Thursday in connection with placing credit card skimming devices on gas pumps at the Shell Station on Pacific Coast Highway last summer, authorities announced Friday. Akop Tadevosovich Changryan is accused of using the devices to retrieve account information from drivers gassing up their cars at the…
Amazon.com Security Flaw Accepts Passwords That Are Close, But Not Exact
Dylan Tweney reports: An Amazon.com security flaw allows some customers to log in with variations of their actual password that are close to, but not exactly, their real password. The flaw lets Amazon accept as valid some passwords that have extra characters added on after the 8th character, and also makes the password case-insensitive. For…
More on Peoria law enforcement's request to fingerprint people picking up prescriptions
Jamie Ross of Courthouse News had some coverage today of the proposal by Peoria, Arizona police to require that citizens be fingerprinted at pharmacies for certain prescriptions. I had blogged about their proposal last month as being a serious privacy invasion of the majority to prevent abuse of certain medications by the minority. The law…