BBC reports: The NHS is blaming a coding error for 150,000 patients in England being involved in a data breach. Those affected had requested that their confidential health information only be used to help provide them with care. But it appears that there was a problem with the software used by GPs to record objections…
Category: Breach Incidents
Homeland Security subpoenas Twitter for an independent researcher’s information
Homeland Security has subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an independent researcher who has been the source of a number of this site’s reports. Is this just another chapter in the war on independent researchers to try to chill speech? Or is there more to the story that we do not yet know? Zack…
PA: Butler woman faces federal HIPAA indictments
Andrew Carr reports that Linda S. Kalina, 61, of Butler, Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on charges of illegally obtaining and disclosing health information of another person. The records do not appear to be indexed on PACER yet, but according to Carr, Kalina had been employed as a patient information coordinator by the University…
Notre Dame de Namur University notifying financial aid applicants of data security incident
Notre Dame de Namur University is notifying some financial aid applicants that their information may have been compromised when an employee fell prey to a phishing attack. In its notification letter (reproduced below), Henry Roth, the Chief Financial Officer and VP of Administration, writes that the university learned of the possible compromise on May 18. Investigation…
Prince Hotels hack results in loss of 124,000 customers’ credit card numbers, other data
Chisato Tanaka has more on the FastBooking incident, reported earlier today by BleepingComputer. Prince Hotels Inc., one of the nation’s largest hotel and resort operators, apologized Tuesday after data on 124,963 individuals and groups was stolen by hackers earlier this month. All of the customers had booked rooms through its official foreign-language website. At a…
Data breach of 1,000 patients lands former Long Beach VA worker in prison
Megan Barnes reports that more than 1,000 patients at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center had their information stolen by a now-former employee who has been sentenced to prison. Albert Torres was reportedly arrested on April 12 after officers became suspicious when his license plates were not those for a noncommercial vehicle. A search…