Paul Smith reports on an incident at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania medical practice: A patient at Crooked Oak Family Medicine stole a document containing personal information about some of the practice’s other patients on February 5, 2013. Read more on Fox43. A statement posted today on Lancaster General Health‘s web site says: A Crooked Oak Family…
Law firms gear up for class-action against Montfort over personal data loss
Derek Spalding reports that lawsuit over a lost USB drive breach is brewing: Two heavyweight lawfirms out of Windsor and Toronto promise to launch a class-action lawsuit as early as next week against Montfort Hospital for its role in losing the personal information of 25,000 patients. Representatives from Sutts, Strosberg LLP and Falconer Charney LLP…
Caribbean banks issue credit card alert (update 2)
I’ve continued to look for updates to recent reports of a breach affecting banks in the Bahamas. Is this related, I wonder: Banks and other financial institutions across the Caribbean have been impacted by a security breach at a financial institution in the region. This potential security breach can result in the compromise of a…
HHS update to breach tool shows laptop theft is not a thing of the past, Part 2 (updated)
Updated to include details of the DentaQuest of Florida breach. HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. I did some digging to find details for the reports we did not know about already. Some of what I found was reported in Part 1, here. The following were also included…
Time Warner Cable Support Service Hacked and Defaced by NullCrew
Time Warner Cable Inc has had its main website for its cable service hacked and left defaced with its embarrassing administration password. The attack has been carried out by members of NullCrew who have announced it on twitter and posted a screen capture to freezepage> Time Warner Cable: supportcenter.timewarnercable.com:8888/sdcxuser/ @youranonnews @thehackersnews @cyber_war_news @anonymousirc @anonymousopsirc @officialhmei7 — NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) March 6,…
HIPAA Omnibus: Gaps In Privacy?
Although the HIPAA Omnibus Rule is a step in the right direction for protecting health information, the regulation still leaves large privacy gaps, says patient advocate Deborah Peel, M.D. “HIPAA Omnibus finally affirmed that states can pass laws that are tougher than HIPAA, and that’s really good news because HIPAA is so full of flaws and defects that…