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Medical Informatics Engineering Breach Highlights Breach Notice, Privacy, And Cloud-Storage Issues

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Dissent

George Jenkins’ wife received a breach notification letter from Medical Informatics Engineering about their breach. And when George started investigating to find out why and how they happened to have his wife’s information, he was not happy with what he found out. Read the results of his digging and his thoughts on I’ve Been Mugged.

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Credit union email gaffe exposes employee information

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Dissent

Add Scient Federal Credit Union to the list of those exposing employee information due to an email error. The error occurred on July 14, and resulted in an unspecified number of employees’ details being sent to a prospective employee. The information, which was sent by secure email, included name, Social Security number, address, amount or…

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PA: Married Montco Business Owners Steal $124K by Using Personal Information From Victims: Police

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

David Chang reports: Police are searching for a Montgomery County couple who they say swindled tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims, using their names and social security numbers. Eric Martin, 33, and his wife and business partner, 29-year-old Portia Martin, are accused of creating credit accounts by using stolen identity information and making…

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Hacker Says He Crashed New York Mag Website Because He Hates NYC, Not Cosby’s Alleged Rape Victims

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

Emma Whitford reports: Last night at 9:00 p.m., New York magazine’s website published a cover story that had thousands of shares within an hour—a project 6 months in the making, it compiles the stories and portraits of 35 of the 46 women who have publicly alleged that Bill Cosby raped or sexually assaulted them. Early this morning, the entire…

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Patient data included on missing thumb drive, OhioHealth says

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

Ben Sutherly reports: Sensitive data for nearly 1,000 valve-replacement candidates and research subjects at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital might have been compromised when an unencrypted thumb drive came up missing. The data include patients’ names, medical-record numbers, insurance companies, physicians, addresses, dates of birth, referral and treatment dates, and types of procedures conducted on them….

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Children’s National Medical Center faces suit for hack of up to 18,000 patients’ data

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a breach disclosed in March by the Children’s National Medical Center. Tina Reed reports: Children’s National Health System is facing a potential class-action lawsuit following the hack of the personal data of up to 18,000 patients last year. Fardoes Khan, a longtime patient at Children’s, filed the suit after receiving a…

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