Jim Dolan of ABC reports: This school year is getting off to a bit of a rough start for thousands of CUNY [City University of New York] students. More than 7,000 of them received letters saying their names and Social Security numbers had been stolen. Now, there is growing concern about overall security at the…
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I decided to give Twitter a try, so look for @PogoWasRight on Twitter where I’ll be tweeting about some of the privacy and breach news covered on PogoWasRight.org, PHIprivacy.net, and DataBreaches.net, as well as miscellaneous civil liberties issues of concern to me. If you’re not on my “following” list yet, please don’t take offense. I’m…
JM: First persons charged under Cyber Crimes Act
Jamaica’s Cyber Crimes Act was enacted earlier this year. Now two people who were observed acting suspiciously in front of an ATM while in possession of access and cloning devices have become the first individuals charged under the new law. The Jamaica Observer has the story.
Former Humana employee admits to patient ID theft to support drug habit
Seen at American Medical News: An ex-employee of health plan Humana pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining patient information to get prescription painkillers for himself. Jason Browning, 28, of LaGrange, Ky., admitted to illegally obtaining personal information on four Humana members then submitting the data to a pharmacy to obtain prescriptions in their names. He pleaded…
Eastern Michigan University investigating computer security breach, employee banking information may be compromised
Stefanie Murray reports: An Eastern Michigan University computer server was hacked into late Friday, potentially exposing employees’ direct deposit banking information, some university passwords and personal identification numbers, according to an e-mail sent to the EMU community tonight. The security breach occurred about 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to the e-mail, and was discovered Saturday by…
Confidential reporting system for Canadian physicians’ health proposed
In a bid to protect physician privacy, the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) is calling for the creation of a nonjudgemental, voluntary and confidential reporting system for the personal health information of its 78 500 member physicians. Some regulatory colleges and an increasing number of hospitals have, under the auspices of protecting the public, recently…