Adam Greenberg reports that DaVita is notifying approximately 11,500 dialysis patients of a breach that occurred when a laptop with unencrypted PHI was stolen from an employee’s car. The notice on DaVita’s site, dated Nov. 5 and linked from its home page, reads: DaVita®, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., reported today that on…
XSplit Password Reset Alert – Protecting Your Twitch Account
The following was posted yesterday on Twitch: Attention Broadcasters: If you are currently or have in the past used XSplit to stream to Twitch, please read this carefully. It has come to our attention that various data on XSplit’s servers have been compromised. In particular, your XSplit credentials (account name and password), as well as…
Baltimore police officer pleads to extortion and ID theft
Ian Duncan reports: A Baltimore police officer pleaded guilty to identity theft and extortion Wednesday after being caught in an elaborate FBI sting that involved an informant posing as a crooked tax preparer and heroin dealer. Over the course of this spring, Ashley Roane, 26, worked with the informant to try to file false tax…
AU: Hunter United Credit Union admits it tried to avoid embarrassment over email privacy breach
So you goofed and disclosed customers’ e-mail addresses in the To: or CC: field. Should you: (a) immediately acknowledge the gaffe, or (b) say nothing and hope that people don’t notice? Hint: the correct answer is (a).
Kaiser Tested for HIV Without Consent, Class Claims (Updated)
Philip Janquart reports: Kaiser intentionally performed HIV tests on thousands of health plan members without their consent, alleges a class action complaint filed in Clark County Superior Court. Lead plaintiff Mary E. Benton claims Kaiser instituted a new protocol in April 2013 that required members between 50 and 65 to receive Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)…
Obamacare: no criminal background check required to be a Navigator?
As I’ve commented previously, there are valid security concerns to be raised about the healthcare.gov site and system. Here’s one of them, in my opinion: Yesterday, during a congressional hearing, Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged that there are no criminal background checks required by the Affordable Care Act for those who serve as Navigators. States may have…