Aime Chanthadavong reports: Identification card solutions provider, Multicard, has been found to have leaked the personal information of approximately 9,000 maritime security identity card (MSIC) applicants online. The Office of the Australian Information Commission (OAIC) found that Multicard stored personal information on a publicly accessible web server without appropriate security controls to prevent unauthorised access….
69 Vermont docs, health care providers targeted in tax scam
Sam Hemingway reports: At least 69 Vermont physicians and health care workers, many of them connected to Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, were targets of a nationwide tax scam involving identity theft and the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns in their names. “It’s mostly doctors, but it’s not restricted to them,” Paul…
NYC: Hale & Hearty Customers Targeted by Credit Card Skimmers
NBC reports: A 39-year-old Bronx man and his 29-year-old girlfriend are accused of skimming customers’ credit card numbers at the Hale & Hearty where she worked, and then going on shopping sprees with several others, spending more than $200,000. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. says 11 people are accused in the scheme that began…
AL: Patients' personal info stolen from Flowers Hospital by employee for tax refund fraud scheme
Ken Curtis reports: Flowers Hospital has sent letters to people whose lab work performed there warning that their identity may have been stolen and used to file fraudulent income tax returns. A copy of the letter made available to WDHN states the files were stolen between June, 2013 and February, 2014. Read more on DothanFirst….
Disclosure of medical records breached patient’s human rights – Strasbourg
The release of confidential patient details to a state medical institution in the course of her negotiations with a hospital over a lawsuit was an unjustified interference with her right to respect for private life under Article 8. Read more on UK Human Rights Blog. The case is L.H. v Latvia [2014] ECHR 453 (29 April 2014) – read judgment.
DeKalb Health reports patient information breach after compromise of vendor's server
KPC News reports: DeKalb Health hospital Wednesday announced it has learned of a hacking incident involving the DeKalb Health website that resulted in inappropriate access to certain information about some DeKalb Health patients. DeKalb Health uses a third party firm to operate its website, and a computer server operated by that third party was the…