Wow. I no sooner get done blogging about x-ray theft and lo, there’s another one. Andrea K. Walker reports: Baltimore County police are looking for someone who stole thousands of X-rays from St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson in what they believe was a scheme to extract the silver from the images. The hospital said Friday that someone posed as a…
Security Breach at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
Two New York men charged in ID theft fraud, stole hotel guests’ information
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the indictment of Lukasz Kruk, 27, and Barry Herndon, 47, for collaborating on a long-term scheme in which they stole and possessed information from 237 credit cards, many of which were used to order more than $840,000 in airline tickets, and other goods and services. According to…
Security Breach at Lawrence Memorial Hospital (updated)
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
UCLA Health System notifies 16,288 of stolen hard drive
Public notice from UCLA Health System, posted today on their web site: The UCLA Health System is notifying thousands of patients by mail that on Sept. 6, 2011, an external computer hard drive that contained some personal information on 16,288 patients was among a number of items stolen during a home invasion. Although this information…
Kidney Times hack reveals users’ e-mail addresses and phone numbers
Via Cyber War News, another hack – this one of the Kidney Times user database with 952 email addresses and phone numbers dumped. Lee J of Cyber War News comments on the breach: Well, this would have to be one of the worst sites you could possible target, regardless. Hackers need to stay away from websites adn…