Meredith Ley of WSAV reports that 23 people, mostly from Georgia, are facing charges in connection with ID theft and tax refund fraud scheme. Authorities with the FBI, Statesboro Police and the IRS believe those involved took names, birthdays, and social security numbers from medical records and used them to submit phony tax returns. U.S….
Museum With No Frontiers Hacked, User Passport Credentials Leaked
A hacker using the Anonymous handle has posted a paste to pastebin that contains a leaked database from the Museum With No Frontiers (https://museumwnf.org/). The leak was announced late yesterday with a simple post that contains no real message, a link to a 5.6mb archive on anonfiles and a list of database tables and basic information from the…
More than 14,000 Florida patients notified of breach involving tax refund fraud scheme
Yet another Florida medical facility is notifying patients that their information was compromised by an insider who provided their details to others for a tax refund fraud scheme. According to multiple media sources, the University of Florida is notifying 14,339 patients of the UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main practice that they may have become victims of ID…
PPR Releases Trust Framework© for Data Privacy
Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) is pleased to announce the publication of its Privacy Trust Framework©, a set of 75+ auditable criteria based on 15 key privacy principles. The framework enables objective measurement of how well health IT, platforms, applications, electronic systems, and research projects protect data privacy and ensure patient control over the collection, use,…
Advocacy Group Issues Recommendations on Using Surveillance Data for HIV Care Linkage and Retention
Project Inform, an HIV and hepatitis advocacy and education group has published recommendations drafted by a diverse group of advocates and public health professionals guiding the use of laboratory data collected by public health surveillance agencies to link and retain people with HIV in health care. These recommendations were developed at a Think Tank held by Project Inform November…
Westpac tight-lipped over privacy breach
Jimmy Ellingham reports: Westpac is refusing to say if it has told customers affected by a privacy breach that details of their term deposits have been either handed over or taken from one of its Palmerston North branches. Regardless of how the breach happened, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner says it is often a…