Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. The data was offered to tax authorities in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein months ago. The CD contains details of hundreds of Germans…
Patient treatment stopped due to faulty IT
A somewhat scary story out of Sweden. We want a facility’s IT department to routinely scan for viruses and security issues, but not in the middle of a procedure: Doctors were forced to suspend treatment of a patient with a heart condition when the hospital’s IT department suddenly took control of a medical computer, the…
Analysis of recent Health Net settlement
Richard L. Santalesa analyzes the recent settlement between Health Net and the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office. It didn’t take long for an Attorney General to latch onto Title XII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a/k/a the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [the HITECH Act]) in order to…
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…
Another entity named in Mercer breach
Add Idaho Power to the list of those affected by the Mercer breach previously reported on this site.