The Santa Monica Daily Press reports: The Big Blue Bus is alerting customers of a potential data breach related to the NextBus program. Officials were notified on Sept. 25 of a data security incident at NextBus, the company that BBB works with in order to make predictive real-time bus arrival information available to customers. BBB…
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DEA obtains a federal search warrant for patient data on MicroMD
Justin Shafer pointed me to a case where the government, investigating a healthcare provider, served SaaS MicroMD with a federal search warrant for some patients’ data. You can read Justin’s write-up on his blog, but the case reminds us that patient data can be disclosed to law enforcement without patients’ awareness or consent, and that unencrypted patient…
MA: Waiter charged with credit card fraud
Anthony Fay reports that at an alert restaurant owner may have saved more of her customers from becoming victims of a rogue employee. The owner of a Springfield Chinese restaurant called police, after she allegedly discovered one of her waiters stealing customers’ credit and debit card information. Springfield police Sgt. John Delaney told 22News that…
New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions looking into potential information leak
Stephanie Claytor reports: The Department of Workforce Solutions is conducting an agency-wide internal investigation, looking into whether confidential information was leaked. The department launched the investigation at the end of August. Cabinet Secretary Celina Bussey confirms Buddy Tobyas voluntarily resigned last week in the midst of the investigation. Bussey said Tobyas was the operations manager…
Security Breaches Expose Private Information of Military Families
Scott MacFarlane reports: A pair of security breaches has compromised the private information of some U.S. Army families, according to a report by the News-4 I-Team in Washington, D.C. The families’ medical histories, social security numbers, home addresses and child daycare information were made vulnerable. Unauthorized people or contractors have viewed the private information of…
NJ: Horizon BCBS notifies members that perps posing as doctors stole their insurance information
Sometimes criminals steal identity information or insurance information to defraud insurers. But while we’ve seen doctors using patients’ insurance information to defraud insurers, it’s a bit unusual to hear that criminals actually posed as doctors to gain access to insurance information that they then used in insurance fraud. That seems to be what happened in this…