The Associated Press reports that authorities in New Jersey have charged two Bulgarian men with scanning personal information from ATM machines and withdrawing more than $200,000 from customers’ accounts. Lachezar Lazarov and Georgi Nikiforov appeared in federal court in Newark on Tuesday and were ordered held without bail…. They are accused of installing devices on…
Missing hard drive from WTC Medical Monitoring Program at Mt. Sinai contained PHI
A missing – and most likely stolen – hard drive from the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital contained e-mails with some some protected health information. The drive was taken from a computer in the Mental Health Center. According to a notification letter (Page 1 Page 2) sent to those…
TX: HISD investigating how its computers were hacked
Erika Mellon reports: Houston school district officials suspect their computer system was hacked over the weekend, leaving employees and students without access to the Internet, online classes and e-mail for two days. The electronic blackout ended late Tuesday afternoon, but the district’s police department was continuing to work with the FBI to investigate the suspected…
So how are those criminal background checks working out for you?
Megan Fox reports: A woman who was accused and convicted of identity theft for stealing funds from her employer has been accused again for similar charges. Aurea Picasso was hired as a director of Welfare for Hanover County, near Chicago, while awaiting trial for stealing from the State welfare system while employed there. However, while…
OH: Miami Valley Hospital employees breached crash victim’s privacy
Ben Sutherly reports: A Mason man seriously injured in a sensational crash on Interstate 675 that drew national attention received a certified letter Tuesday from Miami Valley Hospital notifying him that four hospital employees had inappropriately accessed his medical records. In a letter dated Oct. 20, hospital Privacy Officer Cindy Howley wrote that employees had…
Did Dutch Police Break the Law Taking Down a Botnet?
Interesting article by Jeremy Kirk about how Dutch police may have broken the law in an attempt to get control of a botnet and to warn innocent users that their systems were infected: Dutch police took unprecedented action in taking down a botnet on Monday: They uploaded their own program to infected computers around the…