The following is cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Dennis Melamed provides monthly HIPAA complaint statistics based reports by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It seems that not only did breach reports in general decline in 2009 relative to 2008, but privacy and security complaints to HHS also declined. Melamed reports: OCR received 7,116 complaints in…
Category: Of Note
Iowa racetrack and casino employee data on hacked server
The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission said Friday that its database containing licensing information of racetrack and casino employees had been compromised after a firewall was breached by an outside Internet address. A news release issued by the commission said that the breach took place Tuesday when one of the firewalls “was circumvented due to…
Illinois Republican Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign “pilfered” NDU alumni info – alumnus
A Notre Dame University alumnus, Gary Caruso, has taken to the Web to question how Notre Dame University Alumni Association records were obtained by Illinois Republican Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign. According to Caruso, McKenna is an alumnus of NDU and those alumni who were in his class have found themselves on the receiving end…
IL: Social Security numbers found lying in street
Lisa Black and John Keilman report: When Elida Cruz worked in the banking industry, she assured clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So, imagine her horror when she learned that much of her own information, including her Social Security number, birth date, phone number and job history, had become astonishingly public, floating down…
77,000 Alaskans’ information missing; state settles with firm
Ted Land reports: Tens of thousands of Alaskans are trying to find out if their personal information is missing. Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Thursday there’s been a massive security breach reaching the highest levels of state government. More than 77,000 Alaskans’ personal information is missing. No one knows where it went. […] On that…
Hotel chain Starwood warns of possible credit card fraud
Customers who stayed at one of the hotels owned by international hotel conglomerate Starwood within Germany may have been victim to widespread credit card fraud, the company confirmed on Tuesday. The New York-based company owns chains such as Sheraton, Westin and Le Méridien, and believes that some customers who carry “Miles and More” cards –…