One of the breaches recently added to HHS’s public-facing breach tool was an incident involving Barnabas Health in New Jersey. In response to my e-mail and phone inquiries, today they sent me a link to a statement that was subsequently posted on their web site: IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PEDIATRIC SPECIALTY CENTER PATIENTS Posted Date: 12/18/2013…
Data breach cost $3.7m, claims report
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports on the cost to the U.S. of investigations involving U.K. hackers: Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, was arrested in October over charges which include allegations he hacked the US Department of Energy (DoE) computers. A report says personal information on 104,000 people could have been taken. It says dealing with…
Openssl.org Breached By @turkguvenligi
Today a hacker using the handle @turkguvenligi who has been around for some time now has announced a breach on the well known openssl.org website. The breach has left the site with a new main page, nothing special but enough to let the admins and users of the site know its been breached. At time…
What's a good set of Policies and Procedures worth?
Attorney Jeff Drummond compares the cost of hiring a professional o get your policies and procedures in place to the cost of not having them in place and triggering an OCR investigation.
Social Security Customer Service Employee Indicted For Stealing Information And Money From Agency
BIRMINGHAM — December 27. A federal grand jury today indicted a Social Security Administration telephone service center employee for using his position to steal identifying information and benefits from Social Security beneficiaries, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Guy Fallen. A 14-count indictment filed…
South Carolina Health Insurance Pool reports breach after laptop stolen from independent auditor’s car (Update1)
Just what South Carolina needed – another agency breach. Chris Meller writes: … the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool has begun notifying current and previous subscribers that their information has been leaked again. According to a letter dated December 18th a laptop owned by DeLoach & Williamson, an independent auditor contracted by SCHIP, was stolen from an employee’s car on October 16, 2013….