HHS has announced another enforcement action. This one stems from an investigation into a breach noted on this site in May, 2013. Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A. of North Carolina (Raleigh Orthopaedic) has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule…
Pain Treatment Centers of America notifies 19,397 patients of Bizmatics breach
Ouch. The Pain Treatment Centers of America and Interventional Surgery Institute in Arkansas have been notifying HHS and 19,397 patients about a security incident involving their vendor, Bizmatics. I had reported last month that Bizmatics’ breach impacted at least 30,000 patients of two other clients. PTCOA becomes the third provider we now know about. I’ve emphasized some statements in PTCOA’s notice,…
Denver Archdiocese payroll system breached, 18,000 at risk
So which vendor was responsible for this one? The archdiocese wouldn’t answer that question when I put it to them…. Tom McGhee reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach at the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver that put current and terminated employees, their dependents, spouses, and beneficiaries at risk of ID theft. A third-party software provider…
The Injuries Reilly Ignored: Consumer Data Breaches and Injury-in-Fact
Law student Shannon Grammel writes: The U.S. Supreme Court denied review in 2012 to thousands of individuals whose data was breached who were alleging increased harm of identity theft and seeking to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s decision to deny them standing in Reilly v. Ceridian Corp.1 In so doing, the Supreme…
SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it?
An episode on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday evening probably alarmed a number of people as it demonstrated how hackers could remotely take over your cell phone and watch you through your camera without anything indicating to you that your camera was in operation, etc. Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone…
Fourteen school systems impacted by Innovak Intl breach – IRS
So Innovak International never responded to my inquiries, but an IRS investigator reportedly told others that 14 school systems – three in Alabama and 11 in Mississippi – were impacted by their breach involving employees’ w-2 statements. Innovak’s web site, which never looked particularly confidence-inspiring to me to begin with, has a statement that says: We are currently…