The Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California has experienced a recent HIPAA security incident involving eligibility information. The Laborers’ Funds Administrative Office, who administers the Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California, recently generated and distributed IRS Form 1095-B to plan participants. On February 17, 2016, the Fund Office discovered that due to a…
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NZ: Silverstream Health Centre patients reassured after email gaffe involving online patient portal
Blake Crayton-Brown reports: Patients at Silverstream Health Centre are being assured an accidental disclosure of patient information was a one-off. GP Dr Marko Kljakovic accidentally sent a message to all patients signed up to the centre’s Manage My Health portal early last week. The message, intended to be a reply to a single patient, contained advice about diet, instructions…
“Paging Kinoptic developer to Aisle 4 to clean up your mess”
Chris Vickery sends along this alert to everyone who used the iPhone app Kinoptic and/or who may know how to get in touch with the developer: Post-mortem breaches can be just as harmful as live production leaks… at least for these 198,000 people. About three years ago there was an iPhone app named Kinotopic. According to…
BREAKING: FBI raids former sheriff’s deputy over hack, data dump on PBSOTalk.com (Update 1)
Last week, DataBreaches.net broke the story of how some south Florida agencies’ databases were still accessible to a Russian known online as “BadVolf” (or “BadWolf”). BadVolf, a self-identified friend of Mark Dougan, claims to have previously hacked and dumped thousands of confidential records of judges, police officers, and other law enforcement officials in retaliation for how the Palm…
So you found some records in the street? Now what do you do?
Sometimes people who find documents with personal information don’t know to whom to return them. Other times, they may know, but refuse to return them or stall in returning them. And yet others may decide to go to the media. Why people make the choices they make is beyond the scope of this blog, but…
Private tracker member data leaked via BBCode exploit
Andy of TorrentFreak writes that a vulnerability in a popular private tracker, SceneAccess, enabled a security expert to extract private data about site members and staff and attach usernames to IP addresses. The possibility remains, Andy writes, that other sites are also affected. Read more on TorrentFreak.