University of Missouri Health Care recently notified HHS of a breach involving the records on 1,288 patients. According to a news release on their web site issued June 21: University of Missouri Health Care and the University of Missouri Police Department are investigating a missing package containing patient billing information. On June 14, University of Missouri Health Care officials failed…
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Reznick Group Notified of Potential Security Breach At Former Employee Benefits Service Provider, AssureCare Risk Management
Reznick Group, a top 20 national CPA firm, today announced that it has been informed by AssureCare Risk Management, Inc. (“ARM”), the former service provider of Reznick Group’s employee benefits plan from 2001-2006, that ARM has suffered a security breach of its computer server that may affect former and current Reznick Group employees and their…
Citi Cards Japan data theft hits 92,408 in Japan
Thieves stole private data for more than 90 000 customers of Citigroup’s Japanese credit-cards subsidiary and resold it to others, the company said on Friday. “Citi Cards Japan, Inc. (CCJ) has come to know that certain personal information of 92, 408 customers has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally,” the company…
(update) Travelodge blames ‘vindictive individual’ for email database breach
John Leyden has a follow-up on an e-mail hack The Register initially revealed in June and that I covered on this blog. Travelodge UK’s explanation doesn’t fully answer my questions, but here’s part of it: This enquiry has thoroughly examined our own IT infrastructures and databases and those belonging to our suppliers as well. The…
UK: Thousands of tenants’ details, including 800 bank account numbers, found on memory stick left in a London pub
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…
(Follow-up) Kaiser employee ID theft suspect pleads no contest
C. Johnson reports: A benefits clerk, who was busted while about to undergo liposuction surgery using fraudulently-obtained credit card information from one of her victims, has pleaded no contest to identity theft. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office says Mia Garza, 31, was accused of stealing personal identification information from more than 400 Kaiser Permanente…