Brian Wilson reports: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation raided the home of a former state employee on Friday night they say stole the personal information of approximately 6,000 state and Metro government employees. In a statement, TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said state officials searched the Hermitage home of 24-year-old Steven Hunter to seize computers that…
N.M. Case Tests How Far CEs Must Go to Meet the Demands of Law Enforcement
AIS Health has an article on a troubling case previously discussed on this blog involving two Gila Medical Center physicians who cooperated with police requests for increasingly invasive body searches of a man suspected of hiding drugs in his body. The article begins: Hospital privacy officers on the job long enough have their share of…
Ranking Members Waxman and DeGette Release Memo on Healthcare.gov Security
Over on beSpacific, Sabrinia Pacifici writes: “Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette released a memo to Democratic Committee members regarding the security of Healthcare.gov. In a classified briefing two days ago, HHS officials revealed that there have been no successful security attacks…
FTC wants to be enforcer of data security
Jaikumar Vijayan Despite growing pushback from companies and powerful industry groups, the Federal Trade Commission continues to insist that it wants to be the nation’s enforcer of data security standards. The FTC, over the past years, has gone after companies that have suffered data breaches, citing the authority granted to it under a section of…
University of North Carolina investigates data breach, notifies affected people
Carolina officials are investigating a data breach that risked unauthorized online access to personal information concerning some current and former employees, vendors and students. It is believed that more than 6,000 people are affected. On Nov. 11, an information technology manager in the Division of Finance and Administration was informed that some electronic files managed…
IG: Personal Information Stolen from 104,179 after Energy Department Cyber Attack
Elizabeth Harrington reports on a newly-released Inspector General’s report on the hack at the Department of Energy previously covered on this blog. Some of the highlights: The Energy department was aware of “early warning signs” that personally identifiable information (PII) of its employees was at risk. The attackers used exploits commonly available on the internet…