In December, Fresenius Medical Care of North America (FMCNA) discovered that a USB drive with patient information was missing from their Robinwood Dialysis Center in Hagerstown, Maryland. The drive had been attached to a computer in the dialysis center. The information on the missing drive varied across patients, but included the patient’s name plus one or…
Breaking up is hard to do, Tuesday edition
Arcadia Home Care & Staffing (Arcadia Health Services, Inc.) is notifying employees that their personnel information, including Social Security numbers and bank account information, is in the hands of a former affiliate who has started a new company that competes with theirs. According to the letter sent to employees, Charles E. Symes, II had previously obtained…
Sites selling stolen credit card numbers hacked
Paul Ziobro reports: Not even hackers are immune to hacking. Websites that were used to sell credit card data stolen in the massive holiday data breach at Target Corp. were themselves shut down by unknown culprits Monday. “Hi subhumans and miscreants, your fraud site is gone now. Go away,” reads the first line of a message posted on rescator.so and rescator.cm,…
IRS employee exposed 20k workers’ SSN on unsecured home network
The folks that we hope will look out for us so we don’t become victims of identity theft for tax refund fraud seem to be having problems with their own data. Stephen Ohlemacher of Associated Press reports: The Internal Revenue Service is reporting a potential security breach involving personal information about 20,000 IRS workers, former…
Boffins propose brainwave privacy standard
Simon Sharwood reports: Researchers from MIT Media Lab and the Technical University of Denmark have raised the issue of “Privacy for Personal Neuroinformatics”, a field they feel deserves attention because brainwave data is starting to go public. The four writers’ paper on the idea points out that electroencephalography (EEG) has been around for ages and records brain…
LifeLock under investigation by the FTC
Well, LifeLock said they come under investigation by the FTC, and it seems they are. SeekingAlpha points us to LifeLock’s most recent 8-K, which says, in part: On March 13, 2014, LifeLock received, as expected, a request from the FTC for documents and information related to LifeLock’s compliance with the FTC Stipulated Final Judgment and…