It’s all fun and games until you have to report a breach involving your health plan to HHS. Nintendo of America, Inc. notified HHS on February 26 of an incident impacting 6,248. The incident was coded as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving their Network Server, but still covers a lot of possibilities. [CORRECTION: It was not their…
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Pharm-Olam notifies employees of W-2 information breach
It’s not clear from their notification how many employees were impacted and how the security incident occurred, but Pharm-Olam International started notifying employees by mail of a security incident that compromised their names, Social Security and income information: At Pharm-Olam International (the “Company”) we value you and respect the privacy of your information, which is…
Was the company involved in FTC charges against LabMD raided by the FBI?
A business whose evidence the FTC relied upon in opening an investigation of LabMD has allegedly been raided by the FBI. It’s just the latest development in a case that has now involved the FTC, DOJ, the security of Marine One, the House Oversight Committee, and a slew of businesses who were told that their…
Follow-up: Wayne Memorial Hospital Incident
Wayne Memorial Hospital has updated its breach disclosure, reported previously on this site as involving unauthorized insider access to 360 patients’ records. On March 1, the hospital updated the situation: One month after the termination of an employee for a patient privacy breach, Wayne Memorial Hospital continues to have no information that the accessed information was…
Wal-Mart says some pharmacy client data was visible to others online (updated)
Nathan Layne reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Wednesday that prescription history and other basic information on a few thousand online U.S. pharmacy customers may have been visible to other users during a four-day stretch last month due to a coding mistake. “We had a software coding error for a 72-hour period from February 15…
Cox investigates possible data breach
When your employees’ data are up for sale on the dark web, that’s a pretty good indicator you’ve had a breach – if the data are valid. Joseph Cox reports: Apparent names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information relating to some 40,000 Cox Communications employees is currently advertised on a marketplace specialising in stolen…