As I pointed out in reporting on Starbuck’s response to Bob Sullivan’s disclosure of a breach involving the mobile app accounts, not everyone would find their explanation and response satisfactory. Today, Bob Sullivan fired back: Since I broke news of the Starbucks mobile pay / gift card /credit card attack last Monday, there has been some confusion…
Meru Cabs was exposing customer data
I had missed this one, but DataBreachToday has a write-up about the exposure of Meru Cabs customer data due to logs from its mobile app not being secured. The exposed data in the logs “included customers’ personally identifiable information, including mobile numbers, email addresses, pickup and drop locations, masked credit-card numbers, payment notification logs, Meru booking…
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sent 1,032 immunization records to state registry by mistake
Sherry Jacobson reports: UT Southwestern Medical Center accidentally transmitted the immunization records of about 1,000 patients to a confidential Texas registry used by physicians, health departments and school districts. Letters were sent last week to the UTSW patients involved, expressing regret that their vaccination information had been shared with ImmTrac, a statewide registry service used…
Columbia Casualty asks court to let it off the hook for $4.1M settlement in Cottage Health System breach
So you apply for cyberinsurance and in your application, you describe all the security controls and policies you have in place. And an insurance company looks it all over and issues you a policy because you meet the minimum security practices they require. But then you don’t actually adhere to all the controls and policies you…
When storing old medical records matters
Over on PHIprivacy.net, I had often questioned the fact that so many healthcare facilities retain patients’ medical records forever. And while those stored records pose a risk in terms of breaches, I had also noted that there might be times when having a patient’s very old records could actually be helpful. Here’s another example. KPLR reports:…
Hanoi IT engineers arrested for stealing, selling credit card info
Thanh Nien News reports: The Hanoi police have arrested three young IT engineers who allegedly hacked into tens of thousands of credit cards and sold the information for more than VND400 million (US$18,380). Le Van Nguyen, Nguyen Trong Hong, and Dang Quang Thanh Thanh, all 25, graduated from a university in information technology and have…