Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care is notifying current and former caregivers after discovering malware on some of their workstations and servers. The malware was discovered on January 27. A forensics investigation revealed that the malware was designed to intercept active sessions and capture login information when certain web sites – mostly financial and some social media –…
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Saintly mix-up results in breach notification for Providence Health & Services
Providence Health & Services is notifying some of their patients that their data were exposed after an error concerning the name of the facility where they were treated: We are writing to you about the disclosure of your medical billing information to one of our business partners. On February 18, 2015, Providence St. Joseph Medical…
TN: Former bank employee charged with stealing customer identities
George Brown reports: A former Regions Bank employee is due in court today in connection with an identity theft ring. Investigators say Kimbriuna Dyer used her job to access information. Read more on WREG.
Connecticut Attorney General Jepsen Forms Permanent Department on Privacy, Data Security within Office of the Attorney General
March 11, 2015 – Attorney General George Jepsen today announced the creation of a new department within the Connecticut Office of the Attorney General – the Privacy and Data Security Department – that will work exclusively on investigations and litigation related to privacy and data security. In 2011, Attorney General Jepsen appointed a multidisciplinary Privacy Task…
For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email access was unencrypted, vulnerable to spies
I’ve studiously avoided reporting on this when the purpose was solely political, but there is a security point to be made. Robert Hackett reports: Security firm Venafi has found that Clinton’s email server may have been open to foreign intelligence snoops when traveling abroad. On Tuesday, former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her…
Miami-Dade County Resident Sentenced In Stolen Identity Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme
A North Miami Beach resident was sentenced yesterday to 96 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for filing fraudulent unemployment insurance claims using the personal identifying information (PII) of more than 90 individuals. According to court records, from at least as early as December 2013, through the summer of 2014, the…