AppleCare Insurance is notifying some insurance applicants that their unencrypted PHI was on a laptop stolen from an agent. In a letter signed by Michael Blea, VicePresident/General Manager, they explain: We are writing to let you know about a privacy issue involving some of your personal information. On January 1, 2014, a licensed insurance agent of…
St. Joseph Health notifies patients of HIPAA breach due to failure to redact patient names from file sent to investment firm
St. Joseph Health reports that it experienced a privacy breach on February 18 when an employee neglected to delete a tab in an Excel spread sheet that contained patients’ names before sending the data to an investment firm preparing a proposal for St. Joseph Health. SJH’s letter to those affected explains: St. Joseph Health provides central…
London firm at centre of hack redirecting 300,000 routers
Nicole Kobie reports: A London-registered company appears to be at the centre of a massive attack that’s redirecting traffic from 300,000 routers, a security firm has said. Florida-based security firm Team Cymru said it was examining a “widespread compromise” of consumer and small office/home office (SOHO) routers in Europe and Asia. Read more on PC…
Brokers Want To Thwart Finra Plan To Collect Client Data
Dan Jamieson writes: The brokerage industry is hoping to head off a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority proposal floated late last year that would have the regulator capture and retain a huge amount of client account data for compliance purposes. Meanwhile, individual investors are complaining that the Finra plan looks like something cooked up by the…
Costs continue to mount in MCCCD breach
While I continue to wade through materials sent to this site concerning the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) breach, Mary Beth Faller has an update on the costs of the breach: The cost to deal with the breach in the computer system at the Maricopa County Community College District could total $17.1 million, with most…
Detroit reports recent computer security breach affects city workers (updated)
Associated Press reports: Detroit says a recent computer security breach affected files that contained personal identifying information of a large number of city employees. The city says in a statement that Beth Niblock, Detroit’s chief information officer, plans to discuss the breach during a Monday news conference. Read more on ABC. I’ll update this post…