In addition to notifying approximately 6,000 patients about a stolen laptop, Speare Memorial Hospital apparently had some non-patients to notify, too. By letter dated April 29 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Speare reports that it was notifying 54 New Hampshire residents that their names, and in some cases, National Provider Identifiers, NH Medical…
IN: Employee social security cards, licenses and more found in dumpster
Fox59 found hundreds of employees files inside a recycling dumpster in Fishers. The files were full of copies of social security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates and lots of other personal information. Information that anyone could have grabbed. […] When Fox59 went through the folders, we found information on employees who used to work for…
Database of Fox Employees’ Passwords and Emails Leaked
Adrian Chen reports: Fox Broadcasting employees might want to change their passwords: A database of about 300 employees and associates’ email addresses and passwords, apparently stolen from a Fox.com database, have been leaked by a hacking group that previously stole thousands of X Factor contestants’ personal information. The group Lulz Security has taken credit for…
(update) Michaels Stores finds tampered PIN pads in 20 states
As noted yesterday by Brian Krebs, the Michaels Store breach appears to be significantly larger than what was originally reported on May 4. NBC in Chicago reports: The Irving, Texas-based company reports it removed 7,200 PIN pads from stores as a precautionary measure. Of those removed, less than 90 devices (or 1percent of the total…
(follow-up) Romanian national sentenced in PNC skimming case
A Romanian national has been sentenced in federal court to 23 months in prison to be followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of conspiring to commit bank fraud and access device fraud by “skimming” customer account information from PNC Bank Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere, United States Attorney…
NY's highest court rules HIPAA trumps Kendra's law
Alison Frankel of Reuters reports: U.S. privacy laws bar release of a mental health patient’s records as part of an effort to compel outpatient treatment unless the disclosure is authorized by the patient or a court, the New York Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday. It was the first time a state’s highest court had…