Amanda Emery reports: Hurley Medical Center inadvertently released the names and social security numbers of an undisclosed number of employees and retirees while trying to fix issues with its health care plan. According to a news release from Hurley Medical Center, the hospital recently discovered that an email attachment sent to a “limited number of…
Ladies First Choice, Inc. reports insider theft of customer data
Ladies First Choice, Inc. in Florida reported to HHS that 2,365 were affected by an incident on January 1, 2013. The incident was coded as “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,” with the location of the information listed as “laptop.” On investigation, I don’t think that the incident occurred on January 1, 2013, but rather that the oldest…
FL: Former Baptist Health worker sentenced in Operation Zig Zag
Francine Frazier reports: A former Baptist Health employee was sentenced this week to three years in prison for identity theft in connection with Operation Zig Zag, the State Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Yvonne Marie Johnson, 46, was convicted on three counts of Criminal Use of Personal Identification in March. Read more on News4Jax. Background on…
AK: Mallott campaign computer stolen
Rosemarie Alexander reports: A laptop computer with donors’ financial information has been stolen from the Anchorage office of the Byron Mallott gubernatorial campaign. […] PDF copies of checks and credit cards were on the computer, including each contributor’s name, mailing address, phone number, bank account, or credit card and security code numbers, as well as…
INFORMATION SECURITY: Agencies Need to Improve Cyber Incident Response Practices – GAO
From the highlights of a newly released GAO report: Twenty-four major federal agencies did not consistently demonstrate that they are effectively responding to cyber incidents (a security breach of a computerized system and information). Based on a statistical sample of cyber incidents reported in fiscal year 2012, GAO projects that these agencies did not completely…
UK: London Borough of Barking & Dagenham signs undertaking to recover lost files with personal data more promptly
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reports: An undertaking to respond in a quicker and more effective manner to losses of personal data has been signed by London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. According to the undertaking, on September 10, 2013, the ICO was informed that that London Borough of Barking & Dagenham had sent a…