Jenny Anchondo reports from Indianapolis: A security breach with a local health insurance company has been exposing members’ home addresses, cell phone numbers, prescriptions and extensive medical information in an online portal. The company had no clue about the issue, until Fox 59 notified them. So how many people might have been impacted? Fox 59…
Recent HHS updates
HHS has updated its breach tool again. Here are the new additions, starting with the ones we already knew about: Fayetteville VAMC UMASS Amherst Various Health Plans, AL, SynerMed / Inland Valleys IPA (note: 3,164 were affected) Lincoln County Health and Human Services/Lincoln Community Health Center (note: 959 were affected) Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Palm…
Indiana FSSA notifying 187,533 clients of potential information breach
From their press release today: The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) is in the process of notifying some FSSA clients that some of their personal information may have been accidently disclosed to other clients. The accidental disclosures may have occurred when RCR Technology Corporation (RCR), a contractor for FSSA, made a computer programming…
Around 100,000 members of Korea’s presidential office site hacked
The numbers keep changing on a breach reported last week. Now Arirang News reports: We reported earlier last week that the website of Korea’s presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae came under a cyber-attack on Tuesday and on this Sunday, new reports show that personal information of around 100-thousand Cheong Wa Dae website members has…
NE: PHI on 2,125 patients was on chip that fell out of a thumb drive on a lanyard
From the Lincoln Journal Star: They emptied vacuum cleaner bags. Scoured the office. Nothing. Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln doctor’s patients went missing — likely having slipped from the thumb drive Dr. James Fosnaugh wore on a lanyard around his neck. Fosnaugh’s office,…
Manaseer Group Hacked, Administrator Details Leaked
A business group going by the name of Manaseer Group has been hacked and had a small amount of administrator details leaked.> Today, the Manaseer Group comprises of 13 subsidiary companies that effectively cover a wide range of sectors such as food industries, gas and lubricants distribution, industrial chemicals, fertilizer manufacturing, international trading, warehousing services, scrap recycling and…