“If you see something, say something” paid off in this case. Adam Carlson reports: A week after he was placed at Paragon Benefits Inc. by a temporary staffing agency, Drew Johnson appeared to be spending more time on his computer than his duties required before personal information from more than 5,200 TSYS employees was sent…
Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County breach notice
On October 4, Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County in Wisconsin posted this notice on their site: On August 6, 2013 Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County discovered a potential breach of unsecured patient health information involving financial statements that were inadvertently sent to some third parties. While most of the approximately 8,000 notices mailed were sent to…
Temp employee at health benefits administrator examined and stole employees' personal and medical info – FBI
So an unnamed staffing agency places an employee at Paragon Benefits, Inc., a firm that administers health benefit plans for TSYS and Kelley Manufacturing. And within days, the employee is improperly accessing personal and health insurance information on those firms’ employees: Files accessed by Johnson included two files, one from TSYS and another from Kelley…
Statistic of the Day?
More than half of all Koreans have become victims of identity theft since September 2011, when laws were tightened to prevent the practice. According to a report submitted to Saenuri Party lawmaker Kim Young-joo by the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, 29.26 million people reported being victims of identity theft every year since 2011….
AU: Telco AAPT breached Privacy Act, Melbourne IT given all-clear
Michael Lee reports: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has found AAPT to be in breach of the Privacy Act after it was hacked and failed to secure customer information. That information was held on Melbourne IT’s systems. At the time of the incident, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis told ZDNet that “whether it’s current, whether it’s historic, it’s not…
Mass security breach of fast food payment systems in South Africa via variant of Dexter malware (update 1)
Duncan McLeod reports: South Africa’s banks have suffered tens of millions of rand in losses due to a major breach of customer card data by criminal syndicates that infected electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices using a variant of malicious software called Dexter. It’s not known exactly how many POS devices were infected by the malware, but…