Here’s one that likely won’t show up on HHS’s public breach tool because of the numbers involved, but it’s an insider breach. Specialized Eye Care in Baltimore discovered that one of its employees stole the checking account information (name, address, routing and account number) of approximately 28 patients and the credit card information of approximately…
Indexeus exposes malicious hackers
The search engine indexes those websites which are frequented by the hackers. Indexeus users can query millions of records from some of the larger data breaches, including Adobe and Yahoo. The results list information including email addresses, usernames, passwords, Internet address, physical address, birthdays and other information associated with the accounts. The site said that…
MobilexUSA Notifies Affected Patients of Possible Privacy Breach
MobilexUSA today formally notified affected Indiana patients of a possible breach of protected health information. As a precautionary measure, the company has retained on behalf of affected patients the services of Kroll Inc., a global leader in risk mitigation and response with extensive experience helping people who have sustained an unintentional exposure of confidential data….
Women & Infants Hospital to Pay $150,000 to Settle Data Breach Allegations Involving Massachusetts Patients
There’s a follow-up to a breach disclosed in November 2012: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (WIH) has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to protect the personal information and protected health information of more than 12,000 patients in Massachusetts, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. The consent judgment, approved…
IRS employee charged with ID theft of co-workers
AP reports: Federal prosecutors say a former IRS employee in Central California stole the identities of her co-workers and opened credit cards to go on shopping sprees with friends. U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced Tuesday that 30-year-old Viririana Hernandez and three others stole $1.2 million from 160 people, many of them IRS employees. Prosecutors say…
MCCCD fires IT manager who warned of security breach
The Maricopa Administration is accusing me of not doing a job that wasn’t mine to do, being responsible for systems that I wasn’t responsible for, knowing about a security document that was never shared with me, not communicating upwards when I repeatedly did so, not protecting Maricopa data when the data that was stolen was…