From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Dumfries and Galloway Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal information – which was mistakenly disclosed as part of…
MA: Spectrum says personal, health care info stolen
A local health systems company said a stolen hard drive contains personal and protected health information of some of its clients. According to a statement from Spectrum, no financial information was on the hard drive, and the data was double password protected. However, it was not encrypted because it was being used temporarily, and patient…
Medical identity theft a growing problem
Pamela Lewis Dolan reports: One-third of health care organizations, including physician practices, insurers and pharmacies, have reported catching a patient using the identity of someone else to obtain services, according to a report from the professional services firm PwC. […] Medical identity theft is still a small percentage of the total amount of identity theft…
GA: Law firm's documents dumped in trash
Ashley Fielding reports: Files containing private information of clients of one of Gainesville’s best-known attorneys showed up in the strangest of places last week — a newspaper recycling bin at The Times. The files came from the law office of Ashley Bell, a member of the Hall County Board of Commissioners, who said he wasn’t…
Lesson learned from a data breach: "Trust but verify"
Tony Kennedy and Maura Lerner report on the aftermath of a contractor breach that affected patients at Fairview and North Memorial hospitals in Minnesota. For those who may not recall the Accretive breach, the reporters provide a summary: On the night of July 28, according to police reports, a consultant named Matthew Doyle, who worked…
World Miss Photogenic hacked and accounts dumped
Yet another fashion/model based website has been attacked and had a dump of accounts leaked. This comes from world miss photogenic and contains 1000+ accounts. The leak contains usernames, emails and passwords, all passwords are encrypted. dump being claimed by iolaka.