Heather Graf reports that Seattle Public Schools has notified parents of approximately 8,000 students of a breach involving their records. Most of the students involved are special education students. According to King5 News, the notification states, in part: “Late Tuesday night Seattle Public Schools learned that a law firm retained by the district to handle…
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Health Care Fraud: First, Do No Harm
Cathy Fleming writes: If you could earn a 20:1 return, would you invest? The federal government apparently would and does. According to an October 2013 report prepared for the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund,1 “[i]f all costs and benefits are accounted for, the benefit to cost ratio of False Claims Act law enforcement now exceeds 20:1.”…
Over 60,000 Tennessee employees notified of Onsite Health Diagnostics hack
The entities affected by the hack of Onsite Health Diagnostics continue to dribble out. In today’s installment, we learn that the State of Tennessee‘s State Insurance Plan, Local Government Insurance Plan, and Local Education Insurance Plan members were affected by the hack of the state’s wellness vendor’s subcontractor. The incident was added to HHS’s breach tool…
Federal workers weaken cyberdefense
Associated Press reports: A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing number of cyberattacks and is unwittingly being undermined by federal employees and contractors. Workers scattered across more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to…
ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach
Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…
Shorter University responds to theft of records of former student athletes
This item is from late September. Jeremy Stewart reported: Shorter University is reviewing security protocol after a group of files containing students’ personal information was removed from a campus building. A letter obtained by the Rome News-Tribune was sent out to former student-athletes by Shorter Vice President for Finance and CFO Susan Zeird urging them to…