January 5, 2018 – Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) takes the privacy and security of our patients’ information very seriously. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident in which some Medicaid patient information may have been compromised. On November 7, 2017, we learned an unauthorized third party had gained access to folders…
Category: U.S.
Florida officials: Hack exposed 30K Medicaid patients’ files
Jesse Byrne reports: Hackers might have accessed the medical records and other personal information of tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients in November, Florida official announced late Friday. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) said in a press release reported by The Associated Press that one of its employees was the “victim of a malicious phishing…
More details emerge on Department of Homeland Security breach affecting more than 247,000 employees and non-employees
If you were part of a Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General investigation at some time between 2002 through 2014, DHS wants you to know that you may be a breach victim. Unfortunately, due to “technological” issues, it seems that DHS can’t directly contact you to alert you, so read on….. A few…
Shafer’s attorney files motion to dismiss federal charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent’s family and court personnel
I haven’t had time to really read this carefully yet, but Tor Ekeland has filed a motion to dismiss U.S. v. Shafer, a case that may leave you scratching your head and wondering why the government is devoting so many precious resources to persecuting and harassing one of the good guys. And for all this…
27,000 UnEncrypted Credit Cards left in shared Database by Thefly.com
CWN reports: Today a hacker who uses the twitter handle @0x55Taylor posted some screen shots of a breach that was happening at that time, since then i have spoken to them about this breach which appears to affect all users who register at thefly.com a leading digital publisher of real-time financial news between 2006 and…
FERC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Aimed at Expanding Data Breach Reporting Obligations
Hunton & Williams explains: On December 21, 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) aimed at expanding mandatory reporting obligations in relation to cybersecurity incidents. In particular, FERC’s NOPR would direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) to develop modifications to certain Critical Infrastructure Protection (“CIP”) Reliability…