Dan Casey reports: Richard Beason’s fax machine works pretty hard, spitting out documents regularly. One that came in July 13 was from a Roanoke cardiology office. He read part of that to me over the phone. “Patient has been complaining of fatigue and daytime somnolence,” it reads. “We have obtained nocturnal pulse oximetry.” […] Beason…
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TX: Scope of Cameron Co. Personal Information Breach Unknown
KRGV has a follow-up on a story they’ve been following this year. Christian Von Preysing reports: The Texas Attorney General’s Office is investigating how a Cameron County computer server with the personal information of tens of thousands of residents ended up at a flea market. In May, CHANNEL 5 NEWS reported an analysis of a…
D.C. Mistakenly Disclosed Confidential Information Of Homeless Residents To Advocacy Group
Martin Austermuhle reports: The D.C. Department of Human Services says it mistakenly disclosed confidential information of close to 1,500 households receiving housing assistance to a homeless advocacy group, which then used the information to contact those people directly — a move that the city agency says was unethical, but that the group defends as being in the…
45,000 Facebook Users Leave One-Star Ratings After Hacker’s Unjust Arrest
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Over 45,000 users have left one-star reviews on a company’s Facebook page after the business reported a security researcher to police and had him arrested in the middle of the night instead of fixing a reported bug. The arrest took place this week in Hungary after an 18-year-old found a flaw in…
Wells Fargo Accidentally Releases Trove of Data on Wealthy Clients
Serge F. Kovaleski and Stacy Cowley report that external counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors appear to have over-responded to a discovery request by inadvertently including financial details on 50,000 Wells Fargo high-wealth clients: When a lawyer for Gary Sinderbrand, a former Wells Fargo employee, subpoenaed the bank as part of a defamation lawsuit against a…
Insurer glitch sends erroneous reports to 657 employers
Holly Fletcher reports: A computer glitch at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee resulted in some member reports being sent to group benefit administrators. The breach did not include social security numbers, addresses, bank or financial information or health information. Because of the glitch, 657 employers who have accounts with BCBST received information meant for other companies…