Michael Rosenfield reports on yet another e-mail attachment error (there seems to have been a bunch of them recently): The personal information of some 1300 Wayne County employees is compromised after an email mistake by the county’s Department of Personnel/Human Resources. A spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly attached to an email about health insurance….
TX: Credit card fraudster gets 70 months
Lynn Brezosky reports: A Corpus Christi man who admitted to making fake credit cards using [credit card] receipts stolen from a San Antonio hotel has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Steven Reese Clark, 37, also must pay $3,606 in restitution to victims of his fraud….
Blood and urine samples found near busy downtown St. John’s street
Improper disposal of medical waste can pose health risks. It can also breach privacy, as the Canadian Press reports: Eastern Health is investigating how the waste — which consisted of three urine samples and eight vials of blood with patient names on them — ended up near a provincial government building along Prince Philip Drive…
Update: Computer seized over Belfast City Hall breach (updated)
Give ’em back their data – that you didn’t ask for but they sent you anyway – or they’ll seize it from you? A computer has been seized from a woman who received personal details of every Belfast city councillor in a major security breach, it has been revealed. Heather M Brown surrendered the computer…
A Georgetown University Hospital breach makes me wonder about HHS's breach tool
The recent update to the HHS breach tool made me aware of a breach involving Georgetown University Hospital that affected over 1,500 patients. The following statement was issued by Georgetown University Hospital, who kindly provided this site with a copy of the notification: A USB thumb drive storing patient information was recently determined to be…
Cn: Dangdang Freezes Accounts After Hacking Incident
DangDang, a Chinese e-commerce firm that had confirmed a breach in December 2011, is now freezing accounts. Citing the Beijing Daily, CRIEnglish.com reports that the firm shut down all account activity from March 19-22 to give users time to change their account names and passwords following “the incidents.” Dangdang said during an investigation to check…