Sometime between December 31 and January 2, a laptop was stolen from a locked Continental Airlines’ office in Newark. The laptop contained personal information on employees, vendors, and new hire candidates. The laptop, which was used for background security checks, contained confidential files on 230 individuals, including their names, Social Security numbers, fingerprint images, dates…
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Former Occidental Petroleum employees’ data in security breach
Through its attorneys, Occidental Petroleum Corporation notified the Vermont Attorney General’s office of a breach that was discovered on December 11th. A former employee in Tulsa “accessed and mishandled” personal information by emailing a spreadsheet containing information on former employees to a personal email account. The former employees’ data included names, addresses, birthdates, employee identification…
GA: Former nursing home employee arrested
Don Logana reports: A former nursing home employee is in jail tonight charged with elder abuse and stealing the identities of as many as 40 residents from nursing homes in the area. Thunderbolt police say Tamara Smith used her job as a certified nursing assistant to gain access to patients personal information. She is accused…
NIST DRAFT: IR 7497 Draft Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)
NIST has released its draft Interagency Report (IR) 7497, Security Architecture Design Process for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), which is intended: to provide a systematic approach to designing technical security architecture for the exchange of health information that leverages common government and commercial practices and that applies them specifically to the HIE domain. This…
Medicare Launches Medicare Personal Health Record Choice Pilot
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced the launch of the Medicare PHR Choice Pilot in Arizona and Utah. This pilot program will offer beneficiaries with Original Medicare the opportunity to choose one of the personal health record (PHR) products offered by the companies selected for the pilot. PHRs will allow beneficiaries…
UK: Cards compromised in petrol station fraud
More than 40 debit and credit cards have been compromised at a service station in Northamptonshire. About 45 people have had their bank cards compromised after using them to buy goods and services at the Shell Service Station on the A5 at Paulerspury near Towcester. Shortly after the cards were used at the station, they…