CBS News reports: The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs has responded to a CBS 2 exclusive, opening a review after the discovery that medical billing company M.D. Manage left sensitive information out in the open. As CBS 2’s Tony Aiello reported, the chief executive officer of M.D. Manage hid in his office rather than facing…
Data breach reported in Arkansas State department (updated)
AP reports: The Arkansas Department of Human Services has told Arkansas State University about a data breach in ASU’s College of Education and Behavioral Science’s Department of Childhood Services. ASU said Friday that the breach could expose personally identifiable information. Chief Information Officer Henry Torres says there has been unauthorized access to the data —…
Montana state health department server hacked via software security glitch
I posted something about this breach over on phiprivacy.net yesterday, but thought this update would be of special interest to this blog’s readers. Matt Volz of AP reports: Hackers broke into a Montana health department computer server through software in need of a security upgrade after a Chinese-language website last year identified the department’s server…
Paytime, Inc. breach affected over 216,000
One day, businesses will heed my sage advice not to stay in the news cycle by letting details dribble out piecemeal. Today is not the day, however, so thankfully, idRADAR did some digging and has found out that over 215,000 were affected by the Paytime, Inc. breach covered previously on this blog. Jeanne Price reports:…
Update: All 62,000 workers at UPMC may now be victims of data breach
Robert Zullo reports: The scope of a data breach at UPMC that may have exposed Social Security numbers, addresses, salary and bank account information to identity thieves has now widened to potentially include all of its 62,000 workers, the health-care conglomerate informed employees in an e-mail today. “Outside of the 817 confirmed victims of tax…
FTC Proceedings Against LabMD Stalled by Congressional Investigation
Press release from Cause of Action, who are representing LabMD in the FTC’s administrative complaint against them over data security: Congress launched an investigation into Tiversa and their dealings with federal agencies including the FTC which threw a wrench into the FTC’s administrative proceedings against LabMD today. “An investigation by the House Oversight committee will…