Dante Renzulli reports: A Fulton County clinic is caught dumping medical records in a place where identity thieves could easily get to them. On Thursday, CBS46 discovered the dumpster sitting right in front of the South Fulton Mental Heath Center contained hundreds of medical records. We didn’t even have to come in the middle of the night. CBS46 reporter, Dante Renzulli,…
MT: 20,000+ tribal members warned of data breach
The Miami Herald reports that 20,000 members of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes in Montana were notified that their personal information was on an unencrypted hard drive stolen from a Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement vehicle in Big Horn County. The unencrypted device contained names, addresses, birthdates and tribal enrollment information for members of the Crow…
CYBERSECURITY: Actions Needed to Strengthen U.S. Capabilities
From a GAO report 17-440T released today: What GAO Found GAO has consistently identified shortcomings in the federal government’s approach to ensuring the security of federal information systems and cyber critical infrastructure as well as its approach to protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII). While previous administrations and agencies have acted to improve…
MO: Citizens Memorial Hospital employee data compromised by W-2 phishing
Personal and financial information — gone. Officials say W2 tax forms were mistakenly given to a scammer. And now all workers at Citizens Memorial Hospital are at risk. CMH is not yet saying how many of its workers this impacts. They say everyone who works there and at all of the dozens of locations in…
Data breach hits San Antonio Symphony employees
At first I thought this might be another W-2 phishing incident, but it reads more like a hack. Davi Hendricks reports: Computer hackers broke into the computer network for the San Antonio Symphony this week, stealing the names, birth dates, social security numbers and addresses for about 250 employees, the organization confirmed Tuesday. “This was…
Criminal record raises more questions about fired DC case worker in patient file breach case
Tisha Lewis has an update on a previously reported incident: FOX 5 is uncovering more about a D.C. case worker who sent confidential patient files to a complete stranger she met on Facebook to lighten her workload. The files included social security numbers and medical records. It turns out this case worker also has a…