As if Bloomberg wasn’t getting enough bad press already, they reportedly also had a data breach. Tom Brewster of TechWeekEurope reports: Bloomberg is in hot water over privacy again, after it was claimed the company had left over 10,000 private messages sent by its customers online. The revelations come at a bad time for Bloomberg,…
South Bend dentist office faced with computer security breach
The South Bend Tribune reports: A local dentist’s office is working to ensure its patients’ records are secure after a virus attacked the office’s computer system in March. Staff at Erskine Family Dentistry, 734 E. Ireland Road, say there is no indication the virus has accessed the personal information of patients, according to a news…
Notice Regarding Missing X-Rays for El Centro Regional Medical Center Patients
Could this breach be related to the one recently disclosed by Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic? There are some obvious similarities, but neither entity names the third party vendor. The May 13 press release from ECRMC: EL CENTRO, Calif., May 13, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — On March 22, 2013, El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) was notified…
Unions eye medical privacy violation
O’Ryan Johnson reports: Police, fire and EMS unions are accusing the Boston Public Health Commission of going behind the backs of bombing victims to collect private medical ?information about those who sought “primary care and other outpatient” help days and weeks after the bombings. The commission has sent letters to 13 area hospitals and 25…
Mass email by Dent Neurologic inadvertently breaches privacy of 10,200 patients
Melinda Miller and Stephen Watson report: Confidential information about more than 10,200 patients of Dent Neurologic Institute was inadvertently sent to more than 200 patients Monday in an email attachment. The personal information – including patients’ names and home addresses, their doctors’ names, last appointment dates and their email addresses – was contained on an…
CERT probing security breach at IT firms
ElectraCard Services was one of two payment processors in India named in conjunction with that massive $45M cyberheist. The other one is reportedly EnStage, Inc. Read more on ManoramaOnline.com.