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Memphis VA breach due to armed robbery

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Dissent

Well, I finally got more information on this breach involving the Memphis VA Medical Center. The Department of Veterans Affairs sent me their report on the incident, which occurred on December 1, when a Resident was the victim of an armed robbery in  the VA Medical Center west parking lot.  In the Resident’s possession at the…

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Two Defendants Sentenced In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme Relating To A Health Care Provider

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Dissent

Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that Angelo Ponds, 32, of Miami Gardens, and Sean Guillaume, 31, of Miramar, were sentenced February 21 for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme relating to a…

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Study shows recycled computers give away personal information

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Dissent

A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard Drive…

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Study shows recycled computers give away personal information

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Dissent

A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard…

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SANS "Health Care Cyberthreat Report"

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Dissent

Virtually all software, applications, systems and devices are now connected to the Internet. This is a reality that cybercriminals recognize and are actively exploiting. Some 94 percent of medical institutions said their organizations have been victims of a cyber attack, according to the Ponemon Institute. Now, with the push to digitize all health care records, the emergence of…

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Department of Veterans Affairs was warned privacy breach was practically unavoidable

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Dissent

Joe Camp reports that the I-Team kept digging into the recent eBenefits breach, and came across an interesting document: The I-Team has uncovered documents revealing the Department of Veterans Affairs was warned that a privacy breach, like the one ABC11 exposed last month, was “practically unavoidable because of problems with the VA’s information technology system.”…

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