I knew the MongoHQ breach affected Sunrise Calendar users, but Jeanne Price just alerted me to Buffer and DecisionDesk users also being notified: News of a data breach at web hosting company Mongo HQ broke last week and shortly thereafter, unauthorized access to Buffer, a social media scheduling site, was unearthed and linked to Mongo’s snafu. Still the connection…
Update: Baltimore County finds additional personal info on contents stolen from hard drive
An update to the breach reported in this blog entry. As if the breach wasn’t bad enough already, further investigation revealed: … individual checking and bank routing numbers were also stolen. Those particular files of 6,633 employees were also improperly copied from a County employee’s work computer on May 9, 2012. In a letter that…
NC DHHS begins notifying clients of breach that went on for years
Friday, November 8, 2013 Raleigh, N.C. – In 2009, pursuant to Executive Order No. 4, Governor Beverly Perdue directed the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to build and maintain NC OpenBook in order to create a searchable website on State spending for grants and contracts. The Perdue Administration then began posting information in NC…
Unencrypted laptops still a major cause of breach reports to HHS
Here’s a run-down of the 29 breaches HHS added to its breach tool today, organized by those we already knew about vs. ones that we didn’t know about. With today’s additions, the breach counter on HHS for breaches affecting over 500 patients stands at 711 since September 23, 2009 when HITECH reporting requirements went into…
Determined to spoil my weekend, HHS updates breach tool
There goes my weekend. HHS just added 29 breach reports to its breach tool. I’ll try to have some information on their report over the weekend.
So the police have a warrant…. does that compel the physician to help execute it?
Decades ago, while teaching emergency medical techniques to police and fire department personnel, a volunteer ambulance worker asked us what he should have done when a police officer on the scene ordered him to do something that he felt was wrong from an emergency medical standpoint. “He threatened to arrest me if I didn’t comply,…