From HHS, this press release today about an incident that never appeared in their public breach tool: Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Parkview…
Does de-identification work or not?
Daniel Barth-Jones writes: In a FierceBigData article which ran last Wednesday, Pam Baker posed some compelling questions regarding a recent “Big Data and Innovation, Setting the Record Straight:De-identification Does Work” whitepaper (.pdf) released by Ann Cavoukian, the Ontario information and privacy commissioner, and Daniel Castro, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Senior Analyst. Of these, the most salient question was also the…
UK: MP’s former aide admits encouraging police spouse to hack email
The Press Association reports: The former parliamentary secretary of Bradford West MP George Galloway has pleaded guilty to a charge of encouraging her police officer husband to obtain emails without consent. Aisha Ali-Khan, 33, who worked with the Respect MP, admitted the charge during a brief hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court. Read more on…
Card Breaches at Car Washes
Brian Krebs reports: An investigation into a string of credit card breaches at dozens of car wash locations across the United States illustrates the challenges facing local law enforcement as they seek to connect the dots between cybercrime and local gang activity that increasingly cross multiple domestic and international borders. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. Some of the…
Yo founder apologizes for hack – and hires one of his hackers
Alex Hern provides an update: Zero-character messaging app Yo has apologised for getting hacked – and has hired one of the hackers to improve its service. The app, which does nothing more than let users send each other “Yo’s” [sic], messages containing nothing but the word “Yo”, confirmed it was the victim of a hack on…
Update: CT health exchange: Backpack breach incident likely human error, not criminal intent
Susan Haigh of Associated Press reports that although the investigation is still on-going, it appears that the Maximus call center worker who lost a backpack full of Access Health CT‘s clients’ personal information had no intent to misuse the information.