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Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd notifies patients after theft of equipment

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Dissent

Barrington Orthopedic Specials, Ltd in Illinois is notifying 1,009 patients following the theft of a laptop with protected health information. From their substitute notice on their web site: Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd. takes patient privacy very seriously, and it is important to us that you are made fully aware of a potential privacy issue. We have…

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Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas notifying customers that malware was present in payment card system for more than one year (UPDATE 1)

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Dissent

Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm representing The Trump Hotel Collection, is sending out notifications to customers who used a payment card at Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas between May 19, 2014, and June 2, 2015. They write: Although an independent forensic investigation has not conclusively determined that any particular customer’s payment card information was taken…

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Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Dissent

Jeff Stone reports: Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced on Monday it was fending off a distributed denial of service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. It’s just the latest cyberattack on a major U.S. research institution, and comes after a number of similar hacks against Rutgers, a school of approximately…

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CA: Data breach involves Big Blue Bus customers

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dissent

The Santa Monica Daily Press reports: The Big Blue Bus is alerting customers of a potential data breach related to the NextBus program. Officials were notified on Sept. 25 of a data security incident at NextBus, the company that BBB works with in order to make predictive real-time bus arrival information available to customers. BBB…

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DEA obtains a federal search warrant for patient data on MicroMD

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dissent

Justin Shafer pointed me to a case where the government, investigating a healthcare provider, served SaaS MicroMD with a federal search warrant for some patients’ data. You can read Justin’s write-up on his blog, but the case reminds us that patient data can be disclosed to law enforcement without patients’ awareness or consent, and that unencrypted patient…

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MA: Waiter charged with credit card fraud

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Dissent

Anthony Fay reports that at an alert restaurant owner may have saved more of her customers from becoming victims of a rogue employee. The owner of a Springfield Chinese restaurant called police, after she allegedly discovered one of her waiters stealing customers’ credit and debit card information. Springfield police Sgt. John Delaney told 22News that…

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