Olivia Carville reports: Health professionals have been caught snooping into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records in four separate privacy breaches in at least three Toronto hospitals, the Star has learned. Last Wednesday, the University Health Network (UHN) notified the provincial privacy commissioner of a fourth breach of Ford’s medical records since his shocking cancer…
St. Joseph Dodges Ex-Patient's Data Breach Class Action
In February 2014, this site posted a statement from St. Joseph Health System concerning a breach they had discovered. Apparently, a lawsuit was filed over that breach in March 2014 (Peters v. St. Joseph Services Corporation d/b/a St. Joseph Health System et al), alleging that St. Joseph violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Now Law360 reports that…
TN: Police report filed in security breach at State of Franklin Healthcare
NewsChannel 11 reports that at least four employees of State of Franklin Health Care Associates have become victims of ID theft following a breach involving payroll information. The Johnson City Police are investigating. A letter sent to SoFHA employees from CEO Richard Panek on Tuesday said, “I regret to inform you of a recent data…
Tens of thousands MongoDB databases easily accessible from the Internet
Help Net Security reports: A group of students from Saarland University’s Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have discovered tens of thousands MongoDB databases accessible to remote attackers, including a couple belonging to big companies and containing personal and financial information of millions of their users. MongoDB is a popular cross-platform, document-oriented NoSQL database,…
More Than 30% of Big Merchants Are Not PCI-Compliant – Study
Jim Daly reports: Fudging the numbers about their merchants’ compliance with the Payment Card Industry data-security standard (PCI) may be a common practice by merchant acquirers if findings from a new study about payment card data security are to be believed. The study by the Merchant Acquirers’ Committee, an association of more than 500…
FL: Two Pensacola Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Tax Refund Fraud and Identity Theft Scheme
Andrey C. Cook, 34, and Richard J. Beverly II, 25, both of Pensacola, were sentenced to federal prison today on charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. Cook, who worked in a group home for disabled patients, stole the personal identification information of the patients and gave it to Beverly in August 2013 for…