Mex Cooper reports: A medical centre that kept sensitive health records of nearly 1000 patients in a garden shed on a disused property in Melbourne’s south-east has been reprimanded for breaching privacy laws. Boxes of records containing the personal details of patients were discovered at the Narre Warren South site when the shed at the…
NYPD finds mother lode of ID theft evidence — along with a gun and drugs — in man’s New Springville apartment, cops say
John Annese reports: A scam investigation at the borough’s Target stores led police to find a gun, ammo and a sophisticated set of credit card-forging equipment inside a suspect’s New Springville apartment, authorities allege. Police found the items inside the home of Sung Lee, 32, on the 400 block of Klondike Avenue, according to court…
22.8 million New Yorkers’ personal records exposed
AP reports: Nearly 23 million private records of New Yorkers have been exposed in data security breaches reported by more than 3,000 businesses, nonprofits and governments over the past eight years, New York’s attorney general reported. Deliberate hacking was responsible for 40 percent of the 5,000 incidents, which exposed a majority of the records, followed…
CNET attacked by Russian hacker group
Seth Rosenblatt of CNET reports: A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET’s website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data. A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that…
TX: Former hospital employee indicted for criminal HIPAA violations
HIPAA criminal charges are still relatively uncommon, and frankly, I’m not sure why they’re not charged more often in cases of theft of patient information for tax refund fraud. I assume federal prosecutors know something that I don’t, though. In any event, here’s a case where a HIPAA criminal charge was filed: TYLER, Texas —…
Alabama Hospital Asks Judge To Nix Data Breach Class Action
Flowers Hospital in Alabama has asked the federal court to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit over an insider breach because the plaintiffs have failed to allege any actual misuse or harm. Read more on Law360.com (paywall).