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Author: Dissent

Pub Looking Into Credit Card ‘Processing Error’

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Hailee Lampert reports: An investigation is under way following several incidents of credit card fraud. Louisville Metro Police told WLKY the U.S. Secret Service is investigating this case. The Secret Service said as a matter of policy, they do not comment on open cases, even to confirm there is one. An owner of O’Shea’s Irish…

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SC: DHEC notifying clients of personal information breach

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Previous coverage on this breach can be found here and here. The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control continues to notify clients whose personal information was included on improperly discarded DHEC documents, the agency reported today. “We’ve already mailed letters to individuals, but we don’t have complete mailing addresses for a small number of…

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AU: Anti-ID theft computer system flops

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Mark Davis reports: A $28 million Howard government plan to create a high-tech system to address identity crime has been plagued by technical difficulties and failed to achieve its aims, the Australian National Audit Office says. The National Document Verification Service, announced by the Coalition in 2006, is a computer network which is supposed to…

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Prying eyes

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dissent

Matt Anderson comments: In a previous issue, I related a conversation I had with a patient about the electronic medical record (EMR) and described to her the problems of poor documentation and up-coding. My conversation with my patient continued, as I told her about the legal intrusions of her privacy made possible or made easier…

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Missing Student Records From Chattanooga State

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dissent

Karen Zatkulak reports: Nearly two thousand students records from Chattanooga State are missing. Administrators there tell us the company hired to scan the documents, mishandled them. The school says this is not the first time this company hired to protect information did the opposite. They say it’s the same business who dumped medical documents from…

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UK: NHS computers hit by voracious, data-stealing worm

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: The UK’s National Health Service has been hit by a voracious, data-stealing worm that’s easily detected by off-the-shelf security software, according to researchers who directly observed the mass compromise. Researchers from anti-virus provider Symantec have been monitoring the Qakbot worm since last May and have documented its behavior here and here. On…

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