Over on EMR and HIPAA John writes: I was recently sent an Information Week article on “Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches.” The article basically tries to list out all of the data breaches that are happening in healthcare and how healthcare companies aren’t doing what they need to do to protect patient data….
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Three plead guilty to using Franklin County Court website as part of ID theft conspiracy
In a case that became a cautionary tale for court websites and the need to redact personally identifiable information that could be used for ID theft, three Columbus residents have pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal credit accounts belonging to people whose identities they stole from a government website in 2006. Katura Mozelle, 23, pleaded…
Computer programmer convicted of unleashing virus, attacking media outlets
A computer programmer was convicted yesterday of launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers around the world and directed them to attack media outlets that republished stories that mentioned him, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced yesterday. The jury returned a guilty verdict against Bruce Raisley, 49, of Kansas City, Mo. – formerly…
Nl: Confidential criminal case files stolen from judge on train
A judge of the Dutch Supreme Court reported that confidential records on two criminal cases were stolen while he was on a train earlier this week. If I understand the translation correctly, he had placed the files in the luggage rack. Here’s a link to the story in Dutch: http://www.elsevier.mobi/pl/svt/si/elsevier/po/opnl/dk/elsevier.09-23-2010.0472p0000/sc/els_nieuws/ms/8vfRNArLu4/r/1285267694/pa/159497/uid/
(Update) NE: Police Track Credit Card Thefts
More on the rash of credit card and debit card fraud being reported in the Lincoln, Nebraska area that was reported earlier this week. KETV reports: Lincoln police said someone who hacked into a national database may be responsible for helping identity thieves go on shopping sprees with credit card numbers. Investigators said more than…
AR: St. Mary's Regional Medical Center alleged to have had a breach
Papers that contained protected health information on two patients from a Russellville hospital was found along a Little Rock interstate. A call into Today’s THV Wednesday morning launches an investigation within St. Mary’s Medical Center in Russellville, as to how two of their patients personal records reportedly ended up on I-30 Little Rock more than…