A study of how chronically ill teenagers manage their privacy found that teen patients spend a great deal of time online and guard their privacy very consciously. “Not all my friends need to know”: a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy and social media, was published this summer in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics…
An Alert System for Security Breaches
Nicole Perlroth reports that there are now some services that will alert you if your login credentials or information shows up in data dump from a hack: LastPass, a service for managing passwords, said on Tuesday that it had partnered with PwnedList, a database of leaked usernames and passwords, to alert customers if a Web site…
Fourteen Defendants Charged In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
One of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity tax refund fraud schemes – involving more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns seeking $65 million in illicit refunds – has been shut down by a New Jersey-based task force, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Fourteen people are charged in five Criminal Complaints…
Hackers steal info on 200,000 Navy personnel (update 2)
Navy Times reports: The private information of more than 200,000 current and former Navy personnel was compromised in June when hackers broke into the Navy’s Smart Web Move Internet site, an application used to arrange household moves on official orders that was subsequently suspended, Naval Supply Systems Command confirmed Wednesday. The compromised database stored 11…
Cabinet for Health and Family Services Notifies Clients of Potential HIPAA Breach
Press release from the Kentucky (state) Cabinet for Health and Family Services: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is informing approximately 2,500 clients by letter of a possible employee e-mail account breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by the Cabinet’s Department for Community Based Services (DCBS). In July,…
NY: Women’s claim holds City of Newburgh liable for data breach
Doyle Murphy reports: Two women claim the City of Newburgh failed to monitor a Newburgh detective who is accused of misusing a police database to run unauthorized background checks on people, including his former girlfriends. The women, identified as “Jane Doe I” and “Jane Doe II” in a notice of claim, say the city knew…