JR Brookwalter reports: Gamigo, an online game publisher based in Germany, was the subject of a security breach back in late February – but apparently, the worse was yet to come. After notifying its customers about the security breach back on March 1 via email, the email addresses and encrypted passwords of all 8.24 million…
Wrexham Council Email Blunder Reveals Personal Data
Rob Taylor reports: Workers at Wrexham Council were left with red faces yesterday after an email blunder saw personal information of residents being wrongly shared. Hundreds of names and personal e-mail addresses were divulged in a mail out of the authority’s annual tenant survey. One Wrexham.com reader described the error as “the council dropping a…
Former RadioShack employee sentenced for ID theft
The Associated Press has an update to a case that began in 2007: A former RadioShack Corp. call center worker has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for identity theft. Prosecutors in North Texas say Youlanda Rochelle Wright used the information to file false income tax returns and claim refunds. Wright had…
TX: Angelina County Woman Guilty Of HIPAA Violations
LUFKIN, Texas – A 33-year-old Lufkin, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Joneshia Cranford pleaded guilty on July 20, 2012, to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zack Hawthorn. According to information presented in court,…
AU: SA Health's Medvet breached Privacy Act with sloppy software
Here’s a follow-up on a breach originally reported last year. Michael Lee reports: Following a leak of client information, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has determined that Medvet Laboratories breached the Privacy Act, despite there being no client bank account details, customer names or test results exposed online. The privacy bungle was first reported by The Australian on 16…
And yet more updates to HHS's breach tool
HHS added another batch of reports to its breach tool last week. Here are the ones I hadn’t known about already from either the media or reports to state attorneys general: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000″,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There doesn’t seem to be any media coverage of this breach,…