Kim Zetter writes: A California man who served as a lynchpin for transmitting stolen money to hackers and carders in East Europe and elsewhere was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiring to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, also known as “uBuyWeRush,” ran a legitimate business selling liquidation and overstock merchandise online…
Author: Dissent
HOW many patient privacy breaches per month?
As regular readers know, I tend to avoid blogging about commercial products and am leery about reporting results from studies that might be self-serving, but a new paper from FairWarning has some data that I think are worth mentioning here. In their report, they provide some baseline data on how many patient privacy breaches…
Lost in transit, Thursday edition
Through its lawyers, Rhode Island-based Benefit Concepts, Inc. recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a package containing employee payroll checks and a CD with copies of the payroll checks went missing. According to the notification letter, their vendor, CompuPay, had sent the package on July 19 via FedEx and it should have…
Pointer: Senate report on S. 139
The report on S. 139, introduced by Senator Feinstein, is available here (pdf). Three Republican senators express concerns in the report.
August VA report reveals no smoking guns
The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted its Monthly Report to Congress on Data Incidents for August 2010. As in the past, there are a number of mis-mailed prescriptions or incidents involving one patient being sent another patient’s medication. Most incidents during this period were of low to moderate risk to patients, and…
Shreveport oversight causes security concerns
Brittany Pieper reports that the City of Shreveport, Louisiana left lots of personal and sensitive information lying around when they held a pre-demolition auction of furnishings at the City Hall Annex building. People found boxes of records with breath alcohol tests, signatures, SSNs, addresses, ID cards, and a whole lot more. KSLA News 12 asked…