Let’s treating this as breaking news, because I expect Reuters will add details to this report later: HSBC Turkey said on Wednesday cyber criminals had stolen credit card information of 2.7 million of its customers in Turkey and that additional security measures to monitor transactions had been put in place. HSBC Turkey said in a statement…
IE: Parents warned of data protection breach after HSE laptop is stolen
Highland Radio reports: It’s emerged that a laptop containing children’s details has been stolen from the boot of a car of a staff member attached to the HSE’s Speech and Language Therapy Service in Donegal. Gardai are investigating the theft, which took place outside the county. This week, a number of parents and guardians whose…
Police detail alleged theft of IDs by former UMass Memorial employee
Brian Lee reports: A former employee of the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend allegedly stole the identities of approximately 22 people to buy cellphones and utility services via the Internet, investigators said. Nine of the alleged victims were patients. Two victims live in Mississippi, police…
BrowserStack analysis: unpatched inactive machine compromised by shellshock vulnerability
BrowserStack sent DataBreaches.net the following analysis, which is being emailed to all their users: As you may already know, BrowserStack experienced an attack on 9th November, 2014 at 23:30 GMT during which an individual was able to gain unauthorized access to some of our users’ registered email addresses. He then tried to send an email…
Moving Toward a New Health Care Privacy Paradigm
Kirk Nahra does a terrific job articulating the concerns about non-HIPAA-covered health data and the debate that has already started as to whether such data should be regulated, and if so, how. Read his article on Wiley Rein. h/t, Daniel Solove
Health Care Fraud: First, Do No Harm
Cathy Fleming writes: If you could earn a 20:1 return, would you invest? The federal government apparently would and does. According to an October 2013 report prepared for the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund,1 “[i]f all costs and benefits are accounted for, the benefit to cost ratio of False Claims Act law enforcement now exceeds 20:1.”…