Nicholas Katzban reports: An internal investigation by the Passaic Housing Authority has named employee Linda Colon as the suspected source of last month’s data breach, which the authority said compromised the personal information of 50 to 60 public housing residents. But Colon has not been charged with any crime, and says the documents involved in the alleged leak…
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OR: Mosaic Medical notifies patients of breach
Mosaic Medical is notifying patients of a breach after an office burglary, even though they have no evidence anything was actually stolen. Here is their statement, as posted by KTVZ: On the morning of Thursday, January 15, 2015 we discovered that an overnight break-in had occurred at the Health Information Technology (HIT) department. At the time…
Court dismisses most of lawsuit over 2011 TRICARE/SAIC data breach
Andrew Scurria reports the latest on a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest breaches ever involving PHI – the theft of backup tapes from SAIC from an employee’s unattended vehicle in 2011. A D.C. federal judge on Friday gutted a wide-ranging multidistrict case seeking damages from the U.S. Department of Defense and security contractor Science…
Update to the SAIC/TRICARE breach
From TRICARE: Letters are being mailed from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to affected military clinic and hospital patients regarding a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI). On Sept. 14, 2011, SAIC reported the loss of backup tapes containing electronic health care records used in the military health system (MHS) to…
(update) On second thought…. SAIC offers free credit monitoring after breach
TRICARE, the military health program, has directed its business associate, Science Applications International Corp., to offer one year’s worth of free credit monitoring and restoration services to the 4.9 million beneficiaries affected by a recent breach. Earlier, TRICARE had announced that it would not offer credit monitoring services, citing the minimal risk involved in the breach,…
Confirmed: the SAIC/TRICARE breach was due to theft of tapes left in an unattended vehicle
Sig Christensen has the confirmation for my hunch that the SAIC breach involved theft and not just loss of the backup tapes: Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, said Thursday the worker had been given the job of taking the tapes from one federal facility to another when they were stolen. A San Antonio…