The Associated Press reports: The names of confidential drug informants, home addresses of sheriff’s deputies and troves of other sensitive data were made public for months because of a mistake by an employee of Mesa County’s technology department, officials said. Thousands of the internal records were accessible on the Internet starting in April until the…
FL: Hampton Inn reports hacker modified customer surveys
Dennis Culver reports on a hack that probably won’t get prosecuted: The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Thursday reported theft of intellectual property at the Hampton Inn at 11281 Summerlin Square Dr. The complainant, Esther Gayfield, told investigators an unknown suspect had hacked into the hotel’s computer system network and modified customer surveys…
Credit Cards At Risk from High-Tech Pickpockets?
Oh yeah, those RFID chips are really improving security. It’s supposed to make paying for things faster and easier – just wave your credit or debit card over a scanner and you’ve paid. But now some worry that radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is also making it easier for crooks to rip you off. Security…
(update) Holy Cross Hospital (FL) breach affected 1500
As a small update to the Holy Cross Hospital breach reported previously on this site: Holy Cross’s report to HHS indicates that 1500 patients were affected by the July 27th theft of paper records. It’s not clear why the hospital took until Dec. 2 to report the incident to HHS as it had publicly revealed…
Three recent reports on HHS's breach site
Manor Care of Indy (South), LLC in Indianapolis recently notified HHS that 845 individuals were notified of a breach involving their PHI. The breach type was coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure, Paper Records.” I cannot find a web site or any additional information on this incident at this time. Prime Home Care, LLC of Nebraska reported…
Lost Laptops Cost Billions
Thomas Claburn reports: Businesses are losing billions of dollars annually as a result of lost and stolen laptop computers, a new study shows. Representatives from Intel, which sponsored “The Billion Dollar Laptop Study,” and the Ponemon Institute, which conducted the study, announced their findings at a media event in San Francisco on Thursday. The 329 organizations surveyed…