Confirmation from Adam Smeltz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the UPMC Health Plan breach reported yesterday involved e-mail: UPMC Health Plan blamed a misfired email message for the release of personal information about 722 members. The email meant for a physician’s office in Lawrence County was sent instead to an incorrect address, revealing patient names, insurance…
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Mayo Clinic discloses insider breach
John Russett reports: A Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing employee who inappropriately accessed more than 600 patients’ records is no longer employed by Mayo Clinic. According to Asia Zmuda, Mayo Clinic Health System in Cannon Falls, Lake City and Red Wing public affairs manager, the information breach was discovered sometime within the last…
AZ: Sealed records accessed in court
Brian Wright reports: A report from the Administrative Office of the Courts found more than 40 ongoing criminal cases involved possible unauthorized access to sealed documents by the Pinal County Attorney’s Office. From the moment Amanda Stanford took office in January as clerk of the Superior Court in Pinal County, she drew attention to the…
NJ: Breakwater Beach security breach puts hundreds of employee documents online
Karin Price Mueller reports: Hundreds of documents containing personal information of some employees at Jenkinson’s Breakwater Beach Waterpark at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights have been available online to anyone who clicks in the right place, Bamboozled has learned. The documents include copies of Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, passports, student IDs, tax forms,…
Insurance Services Office database breached; insurance data accessed
New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office (ISO), a provider of information and analytics to the property and casualty insurance industry, manages a database of insurance information, which includes data on participating insurers’ policyholders. This week, they are notifying an undisclosed number of consumers that an investigation conducted by a county prosecutor’s office in New Jersey confirmed that…
722 UPMC Health Plan customers affected by data breach
Rich Lord reports: UPMC Health Plan has suffered a data breach, and today notified its members, according to a spokeswoman for the insurer. Neither Social Security numbers nor medical information was included in the lost material, wrote Gina Pferdehirt, director of public relations for UPMC Health Plan, in an email response to questions. “So while…