While going through NYS’s response to a FOI request I submitted, I came across a breach submitted by American Express that affected 49 people. Because it’s less than 500, it would not appear on HHS’s breach tool, and I never saw anything in the media about it. Reportedly, the breach involved malware intrusions affecting two…
Sutherland burglars snagged City of Hope patient data (updated)
Among those affected by the burglary at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions were an undisclosed number of City of Hope patients. You can read City of Hope’s notification letter on the California Attorney General’s website. Patient information on the unencrypted computers included patients’ names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, account number and/or diagnoses. City…
University of Maryland data breach smaller than first thought
WBAL reports: The data breach at the University of Maryland is smaller than first announced. According to the university’s website, there were 287,580 records breached, about 21,499 fewer than first reported. But here’s the better-late-than-never news of note: The school said 78 percent of the records in the affected database have now been permanently purged,…
UK: Thames Valley police face fine for officers’ £800-a-head claims scam
Steven Morris provides another update to a breach previously covered on this blog: A police force faces a fine from the information commissioner and compensation claims from thousands of motorists after an officer stole accident victims’ details from a police computer and sold them on to personal injury solicitors. Sugra Hanif, a constable with Thames Valley police, was jailed…
PA: Security breach compromises credit-card info of Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology patients
Adam Smeltz reports: An online security breach might have compromised the credit-card information of several thousand patients at a Bloomfield-based medical group. Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology on Liberty Avenue confirmed the breach Wednesday, saying someone hacked into a vendor’s systems that process credit-card payments for the specialist practice. Read more on TribLive. A detailed…
CA: Transient sentenced for theft of computers from AHMC Healthcare
Brian Day reports that the transient who stole two laptops from AHMC Healthcare containing 729,000 patients’ information has been sentenced: Christopher Lee Brown, 37, received a sentence of 4 years and 8 months from Judge Jared Moses in the Alhambra branch of Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s officials said in…