Max Marbut reports: You might think the data stored on your computer at home or work is relatively safe from theft or even tampering. You would be wrong. No one knows that better than attorney Thomas Brown of The Brown Firm. […] The culprits left behind a digital message: Give them $2,500 and they would…
FL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out of Vendor’s Truck
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its records disposal vender (sic), Lee County Solid Waste Division (“Lee County”), that, on that same date, paper records containing the personal information of Radiology Regional Center’s…
22,000 dental patients’ info exposed on unsecured Eaglesoft FTP server
Eaglesoft software by Patterson Dental is a popular patient management system. But just as one security researcher had concerns about patient data security in Henry Schein’s Dentrix G5 software, he’s also had concerns about Eaglesoft, albeit for different reasons. He contacted this site on February 6 and notified CERT of his concern: Eaglesoft does seem to…
The second rule of incident response is to follow the plan
From the who-put-the-frying-pan-in-that-fire dept. Several weeks ago, DataBreaches.net received a complaint concerning a breach involving the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission in Maryland. It seems that a vendor’s 1099 tax statement had been sent to the wrong recipient. It was not a particularly unusual breach, but the 1099 had been sent as an unencrypted attachment to an email, so I read…
Magnolia Health Corp. notifies its employees after their data acquired by someone impersonating CEO
Magnolia Health Corporation in Tulare, California has begun sending out notification letters after someone impersonated their CEO and “using what appeared to be his email address,” obtained personal information for all active employees of the corporation and each of the facilities managed by MHC [Twin Oaks Assisted Living, Inc., Twin Oaks Rehabilitation And Nursing Center,…
Alleged Con Man Charged with Impersonating a Psychiatrist and Prescribing Medications to Dozens of Patients in Chicago
A very disturbing identity theft case where if the charges are true, impacted medical care. CHICAGO — An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others. SCOTT C. REDMAN, 36, used the identity of an…