Marjorie Cortez reports that the massive Utah Department of Health hack in 2012 that compromised personal information of 780,000 Utahns has not been linked to any cases of identify theft: Patton said there were 37 incidents in which people raised questions whether the breach was tied to identity theft. That was later winnowed down to four…
Errant e-mail creates security breach at MNsure
And we’re off and running with health insurance exchanges. Jackie Crosby reports: A MNsure employee accidentally sent an e-mail file to an Apple Valley insurance broker’s office on Thursday that contained Social Security numbers, names, business addresses and other identifying information on more than 2,400 insurance agents. An official at MNsure, the state’s new online health insurance exchange, acknowledged it…
FTC reveals provisionally redacted complaint against LabMD
The Federal Trade Commission has released a provisionally redacted public version of its complaint against LabMD (PHIprivacy.net’s coverage of LabMD linked here). Intriguingly, the complaint cites another situation that appears to be unrelated to the “1718 file” incident: In October 2012, the Sacramento, California Police Department found more than 35 Day Sheets and a small…
Paymast’r Services notifies customers after service provider’s site hacked
Paymast’r Services, part of FSV Payment Systems in Florida, is notifying consumers about a breach involving an unnamed service provider. The unauthorized access to the provider’s site occurred in July and was discovered on August 2. In an unsigned letter to those affected, they write: Paymast’r Services provided you with a PaychekPLUS! payroll card (your…
Kaiser Permanente notifies members after e-mail attachment error
Kaiser Permanente has begun notifying some of its members of a privacy breach. In a letter dated September 10, they write that an electronic file relating to a pilot Wellness Screening competition at the East End Complex was accidentally e-mailed by a Kaiser Permanente employee to a member of the pilot planning team on May…
Latest Report On Data Breaches: More Outsider Attacks, Many Of Them State-Sponsored
Nice write-up by Mike Masnick on Verizon’s 2013 DBIR, here. Now if I could just find time to read the whole report for myself…