Initial findings from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on ways to match patients with their data do address problems with current HIT systems and data exchanges, notes advocacy organization Patient Privacy Rights. But there isn’t much else in the findings that the organization agrees with. In testimony at an ONC…
TechMedia Network to start notifying customers of hack involving credit card data (updated)
Oops? TechMedia Network will be sending out letters on December 23 that begin: We are writing to inform you of an incident that may have involved your personal information. On November 20, 2013, Techmedia Network detected an unauthorized intrusion into its systems that may have allowed access to your name, mailing address, email address, phone…
Web host Mannix Marketing hacked; Saratoga Sweets notifies clients (update1)
Saratoga Sweets is notifying customers about a hack of their web host’s server. They first learned of the hack on November 25. In a letter dated December 13, Michael Fitzgerald, Sr. writes that an unauthorized person was able to access the server containing customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and CCV numbers. Forensic…
[CORRECTED] Woman Sues Customs and Border Protection Agents for Outrageous Six-Hour Search
[CORRECTION and APOLOGY: The original headline for this post incorrectly identified the defendants as “Border Patrol Agents.” They are not. The complaint was filed against a number of defendants, including “Two Unknown United States Customs and Border Protection Supervising Agents; United States Customs and Border Protection Agent Portillo and United States Customs and Border Protection Agent Herrera.”…
Laptop containing some Tennova patient info stolen from contractor's car
WBIR reports that 2,777 patients referred to Tennova Cardiology by Summit Medical Group in Tennessee are being notified that their PHI was on a laptop stolen from the car of an unnamed third-party transcription contractor. The theft occurred October 22. The information on the stolen laptop may include names, dates of birth, referring physician names,…
Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets
Brian Krebs remains all over the Target breach: Credit and debit card accounts stolen in a recent data breach at retail giant Target have been flooding underground black markets in recent weeks, selling in batches of one million cards and going for anywhere from $20 to more than $100 per card, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Prior…