Yes, let’s wait until Friday late in the day to disclose another insider breach at a Florida hospital for tax refund fraud. At this rate, we may have to retire the headline “Florida hospital employee steals patient info for tax refund fraud.” Local10 reports: Baptist Health says its privacy office has recently learned that a…
MVS comunicaciones Hacked, 1,700+ Credentials leaked
A Mexican based Telecommunications company who runs various sub company’s has been breached and as a result the credentials of its administration and service users have been leaked. The company is MVS Comunicaciones (https://www.mvs.com) runs pay television services and is based in mexico. > MVS Comunicaciones (MVS) is a Mexicanmedia conglomerate. The company owns MASTV, MVS Radio operator of four national radio networks, MVS Televisión operator and…
Belgian Privacy Commission issues new recommendation on data security and breaches
Julien Hick, Jacqueline van Essen and Vincent Wellens of NautaDutilh write: Belgium recently experienced two significant data breaches (involving, amongst other companies, the Belgian railway operator), which resulted in the online disclosure of personal data relating to thousands of people. These events led the Belgian data protection authority (the Privacy Commission) to issue a recommendation on the security…
Better Safeguards Urged for Medical Records
Kathleen Struck reports: Hacking into patient medical records can be as easy as tapping into a hospital’s unsecured wireless network from a laptop in the parking lot. Government auditors proved it “by sitting in hospital parking lots with simple laptop computers” and obtaining “patient information from unsecured hospital wireless networks,” according to Julie K. Taitsman,…
For health data, big isn't better
Deven McGraw of CDT expresses their concern over an executive proposal to have the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) create a centralized database of health insurance claims: Under the law, the multi-state plans are to supplement state-based insurance plans, with the goal of ensuring there is true competition in all markets. OPM, which currently administers…
RSA Panel: Thieves Thrive On Stolen Medical Data
Marcia Savage reports: Data security breaches involving third parties are on the rise, particularly in the health-care industry, a panel of security experts said Tuesday at the RSA Conference 2013. “This is an upward trend,” the panel moderator, James Christiansen, CISO at the Sands Corp., told the audience of security professionals. “If it’s not on…