Dave Lewis reports: Touchstone Medical Imaging is a company that is based in Brentwood Tennessee. This is a medical firm that provides services such as MRI, CT scans, Ultrasound and Mammography. Today they announced that they suffered a data breach as the result of an open share that was exposed to the Internet. This shared…
Woman Billed For Imposter’s Psychiatric Services
Dave Savini reports on two cases that sound like medical identity theft. Here’s the first one: Lisa Voss of Chicago tells 2 Investigator Dave Savini [she was] billed more than $1,300 by Stroger Hospital. She believes there are likely more victims. According to medical records with her name on them, Voss was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Voss says…
Laptops With Patient Data Stolen From Gaffney Clinic
Mike Manzoni reports: Two laptops with private patient data were stolen from a Gaffney health care clinic Monday, police said. Investigators said the thief or thieves broke into Novant Health Gaffney Family Medical Care on Stuard Street overnight either late Sunday or Monday morning and stole the laptops from an office. Police said the health…
Fort Hays State University experiences data breach
Molly Hadfield reports: A warning tonight for some Fort Hays State Graduates, after the college learned some personal information was compromised. Fort Hays State University said it was security breach online that led personal information and social security numbers of 138 former students to be available on the internet. The university says it was an…
DHS no longer needs permission slips to monitor other agencies’ networks for vulnerabilities
Aliya Sternstein reports: The Department of Homeland Security has spelled out its intentions to proactively monitor civilian agency networks for signs of threats, after agencies arguably dropped the ball this spring in detecting federal websites potentially harboring the Heartbleed superbug. Annual rules for complying with the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act released Friday require…
CUNA Launches Data Security Advocacy Site
Nicholas Ballasy reports: CUNA president/CEO Jim Nussle announced the launch of StopTheDataBreaches.com, which consumers can use to call on Congress to hold retailers accountable for data breaches. The website urges Congress to take action by passing data security legislation. Consumers are able to write their legislators through the website with the option to use the form letter…