Category: Health Data

Sig Christensen has the confirmation for my hunch that the SAIC breach involved theft and not just loss of the backup tapes: Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, said Thursday the worker had been given the job of taking the tapes from one federal facility to another when they were stolen. A San Antonio police report…

The Austrian Independent reports: …. Anonymous Austria, the Austrian department of an internationally operating network of hackers, claimed yesterday (Weds) they got hold of data containing information about thousands of clients of Tyrol’s public health insurance company TGKK. The hackers said they were now in possession of 600,000 TGKK data sets. Anonymous Austria announced they…

When I goof, I goof.  The other day, I posted an entry on Summit Medical Group.  In that entry, I quoted from a published media source, but somehow mis-read the story and thought it concerned a laptop stolen from an employee’s car. The breach did not involve a stolen laptop – these were paper documents,…

TRICARE, the health care program serving Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide, issued the following public statement on their web site: STATEMENT On September 14, 2011, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reported a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI) impacting an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients….

Eric McNeal, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in federal district court to intentionally accessing a protected computer of a competing perinatal medical practice without authorization. United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “The citizens of our community should expect that their confidential patient information is just that—confidential—and that it will not be hacked…