WCPO reports: The hacker group “Anonymous” announced it is taking aim at the Cincinnati Police Department in a video posted on YouTube Sunday. In the video, a masked man at a podium threatens to release the personal information of Cincinnati police officers involved in the shooting of Paul Gaston last week. Read more on WCPO. Update: Anon Verdict…
Category: Exposure
Update on Community Mercy Health Partners breach
Ben Sutherly reports a follow-up on the Community Mercy Health Partners breach reported previously on this blog. Sutherly reports that the actual number of patients potentially affected was far less than the 113,000 reported to HHS because of duplication. And as a result of the breach, Community Mercy no longer contracts with the vendor, he said. The vendor…
Los Angeles physical therapy provider settles HHS charges that it impermissibly disclosed patient information
An announcement by HHS on Feb. 16 seems to have flown under most media radar. It seems that Complete P.T. used patient images and testimonials on their web site without patient consent, generating a complaint to HHS that HHS investigated and confirmed. Complete P.T. has admitted liability, agreed to pay $25,000, and has agreed to a…
ORCID Security Incident
ORCID describes itself as an “open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.” The following notice was…
WI: Vilas County jail inmates had personal info disclosed online
Jamie Taylor reports: About 85 inmates at the Vilas County Jail on Jan. 14 inadvertently had their social security numbers and other personal information posted online for about four hours. According to Vilas County Sheriff Joe Fath, the information was posted when a new corrections employee posted the wrong computerized report. Read more on Lakeland…
Twitter: Fixing a recent password recovery issue
Oops. It looks like my beloved Twitter had a security issue. From a blog post yesterday: We recently learned about — and immediately fixed — a bug that affected our password recovery systems for about 24 hours last week. The bug had the potential to expose the email address and phone number associated with a…