Hair care product manufacturer and e-tailer Ouidad is notifying customers that they were recently alerted to a compromise of their customer database that occurred between June 30 and July 4. In a letter to those affected, they write: It appears the attackers obtained or viewed information about one or more transactions you completed at Ouidad.com…
French Data Protection Authority CNIL Announces New Online Notification Procedure For Reporting Data Breaches
Cynthia O’Donoghue and Daniel Kadar write: France’s data protection authority, the Commission Nationale De L’informatique et Des Libertés (CNIL), released a new mandatory online notification procedure for French electronic communications service providers (Providers) to rapidly report data breaches to CNIL in compliance with new EC Regulation (No.611/2013) (the Regulation). Any data breach must be reported to CNIL via a…
Broward Health Medical Center notified by law enforcement that employee stole face sheets
Another insider breach in a Florida healthcare facility where the covered entity only learned of the breach via notification by law enforcement. Maria Mallory White reports: A former Broward Health Medical Center employee took documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,000 patients in a data breach uncovered by local and federal officials, the Fort Lauderdale health system announced…
GAO: Medicare ID Cards a Fraud Risk
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Citing concerns about identity theft risks, a new Government Accountability Office report urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to step up its efforts to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare beneficiaries’ identification cards. Read more on GovInfoSecurity.com.
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Guidelines to Health Care Industry on Medical Identity Theft
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today released guidelines on preventing and remedying medical identity theft, including best practice recommendations for the health care industry and tips for consumers. The guidelines are part of a report, Medical Identity Theft: Recommendations for the Age of Electronic Medical Records, which frames the escalated migration to electronic medical records…
CO: Drive with students' medical info stolen from nurse's unattended car
CBS in Denver reports that a suitcase containing a thumb drive with approximately 100 students’ unencrypted medical information was stolen from a school nurse’s car on October 5. The car had been left in a parking lot. The drive reportedly contained confidential health information for students from Eagleton, Castro and Munroe Schools. That information included…