The Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM) in California notified HHS of a breach involving paper records that affected 694 patients. According to a notice prominently linked from the health plan’s home page, a programming error resulted in 700 approval notifications being mailed to the wrong members from April 1 to June 8, 2011: The notifications…
3 sites hacked and data leaked in Operation Venezuela by @SwichSmoke
Operation Venezuela has been going for a couple of weeks now, with SwichSmoke attacking the countries government and anything related to it, taking it offline and leaking various types of information along the way. today they have leaked 3 lots of data from 3 a few sites. The Supreme Court of Justice The Supreme Court of Justice…
Dropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say
Yesterday, I posted an item about how the co-owners of Chocolate Emporium reported that a former employee stole their entire business platform and customer database, and used Dropbox as part of the incident. Here’s a related item by Tim Greene: Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised…
Anonymous Hackers Release FBI Contractor’s Drone Data
Alastair Stevenson reports: The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor. […] Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the contractor’s senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia, and contained information regarding “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about…
Mount Sinai Hospital reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today…
IE: Ballina hospital notes found in refuse bag
The HSE and the Office of Data Protection have launched separate inquiries into the discovery of patient notes from Ballina District Hospital in a refuse bag in the town centre. Patient records from a Ballina District Hospital have been discovered in a refuse bag in the town centre. The Health Service Executive and the Office…