by Airman 1st Class Joshua Eikren 375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs 12/18/2013 – SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — Individuals who inappropriately store and transmit Personally Identifiable Information, or PII, over the Air Force Network will now have their accounts locked in response to the violation. Patricia Feist, 375th Communications Squadron base records manager, said, “Personally Identifiable Information…
This doesn't bode well… (UPDATED)
UPDATE of Dec. 28: The medical center now states that there was NO patient data on the stolen computer. Good news, indeed! Original post: Four days after a computer was stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the hospital still can’t say whether there was any patient data on it? That’s absurd. Just ask the staff…
Irish credit union gaffe exposed almost 5,000 customers’ loan information online
Ah, this report from December 24th slipped by me. Cormac Murphy reports: In a major blunder, the borrowing amounts, loan durations and arrears of 4,971 members of Tullamore Credit Union were made public. The private database became freely available via the lender’s website last week and remained accessible for at least two days, it is…
Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack
First they said it wasn’t, now they say it was but not to worry…. read Chris Welch’s report on The Verge.
Response by Adult & Pediatric Dermatology to settlement with HHS
I was originally pointing readers to HealthITSecurity.com for APDerm’s statement, but I just checked email and see that APDerm sent me their statement, so I’m reproducing it here: December 27, 2013 – Along with protecting our patients’ health and safety, protecting their privacy is our highest priority. In 2011, we were victims of a crime and…
Update: City of Milwaukee employees file complaint over data breach
Well, we knew it was coming, but now Milwaukee employees have filed their formal complaint against Dynacare with HHS OCR. Don Walker has the story. If the allegations are true/founded, then at the very least Dynacare should have to explain whether it had a policy in place that would have required the flash drive to…