David Ibata reports on a breach that I covered on DataBreaches.net with a follow-up. In today’s developments, we learn that the breach also affected a healthcare entity: Nine Emory Healthcare patients have become victims of identity theft in a case that could affect the records of as many as 7,000 people, Channel 2 Action News reported…
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Training Proposed After TRICARE Breach
Howard Anderson writes: The Department of Defense and two other government agencies have issued a proposed rule designed to help ensure that government contractors provide adequate privacy training to their staff members. The proposal comes in the wake of a recent healthcare information breach incident involving a contractor to TRICARE, the military health program. Read more on GovInfoSecurity. As an…
Exploiting Privacy Breaches
Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: I recently commented on the rush to class action lawsuits that seems to have become the norm. Today, I was interested to see this column by John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System, Harvard Medical School. He writes, in part: As with any profession there are those attorneys who use the law for personal…
Defense Dept. hit with $4.9B lawsuit over data breach
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The U.S. Department of Defense has been hit with a $4.9 billion lawsuit over a recently disclosed data breach involving TRICARE, a healthcare system for active and retired military personnel and their families. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C. this week by four people whose data was allegedly compromised, seeks…
AssureCare breach in May also affected Gypsum Management and Supply employees
Newly revealed on HHS’s breach tool: Gypsum Management and Supply, Inc. had 25,330 employees enrolled in their healthcare and dental plan who were affected by the AssureCare hacking incident in May.
RIP BlackHatGhosts
recently a hacker that cwn was following was arrested and this has been confirmed, the following is a statement from his group of friends etc. CWN also sends best luck and wishes to him in his battle against the law, #freedom Official statement from Ninja @ TeamGhosts —– This is about Ghost. Ghost (Daniel Stevens) 21…