Jessica Karmasek reports: A Maryland federal court, joining a handful of other federal courts, recently dismissed a data breach class action for lack of standing. Judge Richard Bennett for the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Maryland nixed the putative class action brought against CareFirst Inc. and CareFirst of Maryland Inc. The plaintiffs,…
Category: U.S.
Kaiser Permanente notifies patients after stolen ultrasound machines were recovered
Kaiser Permanente of Northern California is notifying patients after discover of an insider theft. In a letter template uploaded to the California Attorney General’s web site today, Angela Anderson, KP’s Regional Privacy and Security Officer, writes that on June 10, they learned that a number of ultrasound machines had been stolen by two KP employees. The machines were…
Healthcare Sector Under Attack? Yes.
From a new report by InfoArmor: InfoArmor has identified a group of bad actors performing targeted cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and their IT infrastructure, including connected medical devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems (MRI), X-ray machines and mobile computing healthcare workstations. This group of bad actors has performed at least four successful attacks against…
Leaky database leaves Oklahoma police, bank vulnerable to intruders
Dell Cameron reports: A leaky database has exposed the physical security of multiple Oklahoma Department of Public Safety facilities and at least one Oklahoma bank. The vulnerability—which has reportedly been fixed—was revealed on Tuesday by Chris Vickery, a MacKeeper security researcher who this year has revealed numerous data breaches affecting millions of Americans. The misconfigured…
Laptop theft puts personal information of hundreds of Pennsylvania taxpayers at risk
WTAE reports that the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue is notifying 865 taxpayers whose information was on a stolen laptop. Why they would claim this notification is in an “abundance of caution” defies belief. An “abundance of caution” would have involved deploying adequate security and not leaving the damned laptops in an unattended vehicle. Read more…
CA: Peninsula Dry-Cleaner Facing 8 Years In Prison for ID Theft, Fraud: Prosecutors
Patch reports: An owner of a Menlo Park dry cleaning business is facing up to eight years in state prison after pleading no contest Friday to numerous charges of felony identity theft and fraud, prosecutors said. Edwin Smith, the 64-year-old owner of Menalto Cleaners, accepted a plea deal that dropped many of the 40 felony…