In the wake of a breach involving client data, reported on this blog in December, Standard Chartered PLC made some some changes. Kroll Ontrack reports … the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) revealed it has taken “appropriate supervisory actions” against the firm over the data theft of some of its private-banking clients’ bank statements. A total…
NullCrew hints at major hack
International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. I’d never heard of them, and would guess many readers haven’t either, but they seem to have caught NullCrew’s attention. Yesterday, the hackers posted something on Pastebin that revealed a database name, with corresponding database user name (“root”) and the database password in plain…
Parallon Business Solutions insider breach affected patients in New Hampshire
Parallon Business Solutions in Tennessee provides billing services for physician practices. On February 5, 2014, they were informed by Metropolitan Police in Nashville and the Secret Service that a former employee was under investigation for stealing patient information. The data theft occurred between August 27, 2012 and April 23, 2013 and included patients’ names, addresses,…
Maryland state agencies hit by cyberattacks, records show
Capital News Service reports: Maryland government entities have suffered at least six cyberattacks since the beginning of 2013, according to incident reports from the Department of Information Technology. The heavily-redacted reports, obtained by Capital News Service through a Maryland Public Information Act request, reveal that data-hungry hackers and scammers aren’t only going after retailers like…
OH: Breach of Morrow Co. EMS/911 patient data raises questions
John Jarvis reports on disputed versions of a network issue that could have compromised patient information? No patients were ever notified, and those involved tell different stories about whether they were advised to notify patients or not: Patient information in the Morrow County emergency medical service and 911 systems was at risk of being compromised…
Historian’s Efforts To Research Civil War PTSD Thwarted By Privacy Law
Here we go again. Alden Bourne reports that Matt Warshauer, a history professor at Central Connecticut State University, has encountered privacy obstacles to researching Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or associated conditions like Soldier’s Heart in past wars. […] Warshauer discovered Perkins in a patient casebook he was able to look at back in 2011. Soon after, the…