Ian Robson reports: A finance company has admitted sending confidential information about customers, including their bank account numbers, to a stranger. Fiat Financial Services had sent a credit agreement to motorist Darren Wright after he bought a car. But they also posted the private details of five other customers who had applied for a loan….
Category: Exposure
NY: Misrouted medical faxes bedevil family
Marcele Rojas reports: Southeast resident Cathy Meyer reached her breaking point when she received a fax with a list of patients in Putnam Hospital Center’s psychiatric ward. The fax was from another department within the hospital, she said, seeking the patients’ medical charts. […] For more than a year, Meyer has received dozens of faxes…
More recent breaches we didn’t know about
Thanks to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office for posting breach notices online: Student Loan Xpress, Inc. reported (pdf) that the service provider for their student loans, American Education Services, inadvertently transmitted personal information on student loans to another lender that AES also has contracts with. The information may have included names, addresses, Social Security…
Wikileaks Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info
Ryan Singel reports: What’s Wikileaks, the net’s foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site’s confidential donors as a leaked document? That’s exactly the conundrum Wikileaks faced this week after someone from the controversial whistle-blowing site sent an emergency fund-raising appeal on Saturday…
NY: Detailed medical records turn up online
Cathleen F. Crowley reports: Alice Fisk searched Google hoping to find condolence messages written on memorial sites for her daughter, who died in September from complications of diabetes. Instead of condolences, Fisk found a medical report about her daughter’s visit to a bone doctor. […] Records of more than 1,000 patient visits to Northeast Orthopaedics,…
CVS Caremark Settles FTC Charges; CVS Pharmacy Also Pays $2.25 Million to Settle Allegations of HIPAA Violations
FTC Press Release: CVS Caremark has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect the sensitive financial and medical information of its customers and employees, in violation of federal law. In a separate but related agreement, the company’s pharmacy chain also has agreed to…