Leslie Bridgers reports: A glitch in the Department of Health and Human Services’ computer system exposed the personal information of public assistance applicants, including Social Security and bank account numbers. Information from 31 applications submitted online was sent out between December and June to 39 random addresses in the department’s system, said Dale Denno, director of…
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Albert Gonzalez co-conspirator sentenced to 7 years in prison for Dave & Buster’s hack and other crimes
Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
Dental practices feel some pain following breach by business partner
Both River Arch Dental and Hamner Square Dental sent patients a letter on July 16 about a breach that occurred when a business partner’s employee violated their security protocols: We are writing to inform you of the following incident and the steps we have taken and are taking to respond to it. On May 10,…
Louisville dental assistant copied medical records – Police
WDRB reports: Police say they’ve arrested a Louisville woman for copying the medical records of several patients of a dental office back in 2005. Police say Tanya Hubbard was working as a dental assistant in Dec. 26, 2005 (when she was 26) when she made copies of medical records belonging to 23 patients. According to…
Ca: Prince Albert man concerned about privacy breach
Sarah Rolles reports: Dallas Inglehart from Prince Albert received a concerning letter recently. Wednesday evening Inglehart returned home and opened a letter from the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region that advised him of a privacy breach stating that some of his personal health information had in fact been compromised. The letter stated that on March…
HHS updates breach tool
HHS has added 17 incidents to its breach tool. Some of the incidents we already knew about, but here are the ones that are new to me or that add new details: Awklein ,CA,,”2,000″,2/1/2011,Theft,Other,6/8/2012,, I cannot find any information on this breach via a Google search. “Stephen Haggard, DPM Podiatry”,WA,,”1,597″,3/4/2012,Theft,Network Server,6/8/2012,, Dr. Haggard published a…