As an update on a Notre Dame University breach involving exposure of personal information including SSN on the web, Sarah Mervosh of The Observer reports that 24,000 individuals, mostly employees but some students who worked for the university, were affected by the incident. Reactions to the university’s handling of the breach and notification varied, depending…
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Attorney General Says Health Net Security Breach Concerns Worsen After Report Reveals Breach Was Likely Theft
The Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, has issued a statement about his intensified concerns about the Health Net breach: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he is deeply troubled by an investigative report on the Health Net security breach that acknowledges a missing disk drive containing private financial and health information on hundreds of thousands of…
Gonzalez to plead guilty in NJ
Joe Ryan of the The Star-Ledger in New Jersey breaks the news: An admitted computer hacker charged in the nation’s largest-ever data breach has told federal prosecutors in New Jersey that he plans to plead guilty in connection to the alleged theft of more than 130 million credit card numbers. Albert Gonzalez, 28, was charged…
Security Breach at MedSolutions
Steve Keene reports: The NCMS [North Carolina Medical Society] received information today that a significant security breach occurred involving the MedSolutions website. MedSolutions is the vendor for NC Medicaid that administers the high-tech diagnostic imaging pre-authorization program. For a period of time that has not been clearly defined the name, address, email, and taxpayer ID…
CA man pleads guilty to Medicare scam, aggravated ID theft
The owner of Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc., formerly in Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty last week to charges of aggravated identity theft. According to plea documents filed in the case, Rafayel Movsesyan, 38, a resident of Los Angeles, California, opened Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc. in Dallas in 2007 and submitted more than $1,028,000 in false claims…
Blumenthal suspects HealthNet disk was stolen
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says a missing disk containing confidential data on almost 450,000 Health Net patients in Connecticut may have been stolen, rather than lost. Blumenthal said today he is notifying federal criminal investigators, asking that they take a closer look into the matter. Health Net got into hot water with AG’s office in…