A whistle-blower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for companies to protect client data. According to a complaint lodged with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, personal data such as brokerage account numbers provided to an industry-funded regulator have…
Category: Breach Incidents
Curry Health Network notifies members of FastHealth breach
Last month, this site noted a FastHealth breach from 2017 that was first being disclosed. FastHealth had reported it to HHS as impacting 1,345 patients. Now Curry Health Network is notifying its members, and it’s not totally clear if these members were included in the number that had been previously reported to HHS. DataBreaches.net emailed FastHealth…
TX: Personal info still being discarded and dumped improperly
Courtney Schoenemann reports that a security analyst who goes dumpster diving in his spare time, came across a filing cabinet of account receivables from an Austin home remodeling company that had been dumped by an as-yet unnamed company: “Their routing numbers, bank account numbers, some had their driver’s license numbers on their checks. Everything you…
Oklahoma man pleads guilty to using stolen medical records for identity theft
KXII reports: One of two men suspected of of using stolen medical records to commit identity theft has pleaded guilty in federal court. 34-year-old Robert Bond of Thackerville pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Read more on KXII. The report doesn’t indicate from where the medical records were stolen,…
More details emerge on The MENTOR Network breach
On March 21, National Mentor Healthcare, doing business as Georgia MENTOR, announced that they were notifying patients of a data breach. A disk with protected health information mailed to them by a software provider was lost in the mail, they explained. They had reportedly discovered the loss on December 21. They did not disclose when…
“First do no harm” should be “First, secure your patient data, Doctor!”
When they discovered more than 42,000 patient records and millions of patient clinical notes exposed on a misconfigured rsync backup, researchers at UpGuard responsibly set out to notify the entity to secure their data. It turned out to be a Herculean task that would take almost two months and multiple entities to get the job…