Natalie Parsons reports: A Fargo woman received a letter from public housing saying she was at risk of identity theft. It was a result of a US Department of Housing and Urban Development data breach and now she’s worried for her safety. […] The Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority says almost 600,000 names and social…
Category: Breach Incidents
WtSpy, WhatsApp Spy Service Hacked, 179,000 Accounts Leaked
wtspy Recent times have highlighted the need for better security against surveillance and privacy of every citizen yet there is small businesses who aim to reverse this all in the name of profit and today it has become clear to CWN that one of these smaller businesses, WtSpy has been breached and had a small…
EXCLUSIVE: Bay Sleep Clinic patients were viewable online during sleep studies
Bay Sleep Clinic (BSC) has more than one dozen locations in California offering sleep medicine diagnostic services. Their site advertises that BSC: Provides monitoring during a complete sleep cycle in our fully equipped, comfortable setting. That monitoring appears to include video monitoring of their patients who, after being wired up to monitors, attempt to sleep in one of their…
More Rehab Billing Solutions clients notify their patients of exposed PHI
Back in September, DataBreaches.net reported on an exposed MongoDB database that had been discovered by MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery. The database contained protected health information from tens of thousands of patients seen at dozens of clinics that were clients of EMR4All and Rehab Billing Solutions, companies owned by Todd Jones. Since that report, we have begun…
NY: KinetoRehab Physical Therapy notifies patients of laptop theft
A physical therapy clinic in New York is notifying more than 650 patients after a laptop with protected health information was stolen. KinetoRehab Physical Therapy, PLLC learned of the theft on September 16, and although there was security footage showing the thief, police have not apprehended the thief nor recovered the laptop. “Patients who were seen…
Protenus’s October Breach Barometer is available
As it has done in past months, Protenus has compiled a monthly report on health data breaches in the U.S. that were disclosed during October. Their analyses are based on data and information provided by this site and blogger. Of special note: in the past two months, we have now learned of two incidents affecting at…