Pierrette J. Shields reports: Boulder Community Hospital officials are investigating anonymous letters sent to patients of a Lafayette clinic along with medical records that the sender claims were pulled from the trash. A Longmont woman told the Times-Call she received the anonymous letter Monday with a page from her son’s medical records that included private…
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(update) ECMC breach due to failure to adhere to policies
Small note for those who look for official disclosure and notification letters: the notification sent by the Educational Credit Management Corp (ECMC) to New Hampshire with a copy of its notification to those affected is now available online (pdf). In other news on the breach, Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading points out that the…
TJX Accomplice Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
Kim Zetter reports: A hacker who helped TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez and others gain access to corporate networks was sentenced to 7 years and one day on Monday . Christopher Scott, 27, pleaded guilty to breaching the wireless access points of several retailers between 2003 and 2007 to siphon credit and debit card numbers, which…
Three newly revealed breaches affect over 20,000
Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: The new HHS/OCR web site has added three more breach reports: Montefiore Medical Center State: New York Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 625 Date of Breach: 2/20/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Laptop Private Practice City and State: San Antonio, Texas Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 21,000 Date of…
JC Penney, Wet Seal: Gonzalez Mystery Merchants
While major news sources rushed to report yesterday that Albert Gonzalez was sentenced yesterday to 20 years plus one day for the Heartland Payment Systems breach, a term to run concurrently with his other sentence, Brooklynne Kelly Peters and Evan Schuman of StorefrontBacktalk led with providing the answer to a question many of us had:…
Student loan company: Data on 3.3M people stolen
From the Associated Press: A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota. Educational Credit Management Corp. said the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of borrowers, but no financial or bank account…