Andrew Keshner reports: An ex-Social Security Administration worker was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury for swiping social security numbers and birthdates, authorities said Friday. Sharon Coffee-Dean, of Queens, is charged with stealing the information of 41 people and selling them to individuals who filed fraudulent tax returns. Read more on the New York Daily…
Category: Government Sector
SG: Personal data of national servicemen and Mindef staff stolen in breach
AsiaOne reports: The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said on Tuesday (Feb 28) that the personal information of some National Servicemen (NSFs) and ministry employees were stolen after a “targeted and carefully planned” attack on one of its computer systems. […] Mindef said that it detected a breach in its I-net system, which provides Internet access…
Roxana Police Chief: System back online after ransomware attack
Alex B. Heeb reports: Police have finished cleaning up computer systems impacted by a ransomware virus earlier this month. […] But the town’s police capabilities were never impacted by the attack, Roxana Police Chief Will Cunningham said. Read more on Alton Telegraph, although they still don’t disclose what type of ransomware it was.
NC health department exposed patient information in email
Lynn Bonner reports: The state Department of Health and Human Services sent private patient information to adult care homes by unencrypted email last year. The security lapse involved 12,731 Medicaid patients living in adult care homes. On Nov. 30, an employee sent an unencrypted email that included patient names, Medicaid numbers, and the homes where…
Veterans Health Information Possibly Compromised
Dave Kibler reports: Riverbend veterans will soon know if any of their personal information was compromised in a release of information by a former Veteran’s Affair employee in St. Louis. A total of 724 patient’s records were released by the former employee to an employee not involved in the medical care of those veterans. The VA’s…
NHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk
Denis Campbell and Pamela Duncan report: Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the NHS lost more than half a million pieces of confidential medical correspondence, including test results and treatment plans. In one of the biggest losses of sensitive clinical information in the NHS’s 69-year history, more than 500,000 pieces of patient data…