The Tulare County Health & Human Services Agency (HHSA) has announced a potential breach involving the protected health information of 845 patients seen at the Visalia and Farmersville clinics who use the online Patient Portal. The potential breach occurred on March 19, 2015, when an employee sent an email and neglected to encrypt and blind…
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Former lab technician at Children’s Heart Center Nevada arrested in suspected ID theft case (UPDATED)
Ricardo Torres reports: A lab technician at the Children’s Heart Center Nevada who had access to patient files containing personal information was arrested two months ago on suspicion of identity theft, the center’s attorney said Friday. Read more on the Las Vegas Review-Journal. CHCN issued a statement on their website today that says, in part:…
Auburn University notifying over 360,000 current and former students of breach
Oops. Auburn University discovered that students’ personal information – names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and students’ academic information – was exposed on the Internet between September 1, 2014 and March 2, 2015 when they discovered the problem. No financial information, bank account or payment card information was involved. While the university…
FL: Convicted felon hijacks charity – and the state can’t stop it?
Adam Walser reports that a former volunteer at the non-profit Kingdom Purpose, Teach One Reach One after-school program was allegedly able to hijack ownership of the charity by altering public information on the Florida Department of State sunbiz.org website. And there’s little the Department of State says they can do about it. The former volunteer, Sabrina Miller-White, who had been convicted on…
Virginia Beach reports bank security breach
Kathy Hieatt reports: The city is investigating a security breach into its bank accounts, including at least one with more than $50 million, according to a news release this afternoon. Two city employees who are not with the Treasurer’s Office had access to the city’s Bank of America checking accounts from home, according to the…
Biggby Coffee warns of data security breach impacting customers and job applicants
Lindsay VanHulle reports: Biggby Coffee today said it was the target of a security breach that potentially exposed customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and employment histories. The East Lansing coffee chain did not say how many customers were affected. But Biggby said their data might have been compromised when they registered a frequent…