Elizabeth McMillan and Paul Bickford report: The NWT health care system is back in the business of sending faxes, although under new conditions to tighten up security. Daryl Dolynny, president of the NWT Pharmaceutical Association, says the Department of Health and Social Services should have given pharmacists a heads up before putting a hold on…
NL 10% of hospital personnel fell for phishing test
Karin Spaink summarizes and translates: Erasmus MC, the biggest academic hospital in The Netherlands, puts quite some effort in security awareness and data hygiene. (They participated in my September 2006 Electronic Patient Files test, and did relatively well; also, they used the results of my test to again stress the need for data hygiene among…
The "smaller" breaches we don't see
I recently asked OCR if they have been receiving notifications of breaches affecting less than 500 individuals. Their answer is that they have been receiving such reports, but they will not be posting such reports on their web site. The reports “will be used to inform any reports to Congress on breaches.” As OCR reminded…
Ukrainian brought to NYC to face cybercrime charge
The Associated Press reports that Egor Shevelev is being held without bond in NYC after pleading not guilty to enterprise corruption and other charges. The 24-year-old from Kiev was arrested while vacationing in Greece in 2008. He was extradited to New York last week. Manhattan prosecutors say he amassed 75,000 stolen credit-card numbers. They say…
Black Market Travel Agents
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud…
(follow-up) TX: S.A. has its largest ID-theft case ever
Guillermo Contreras reports: Credit-card numbers from 17,000 guests at the Emily Morgan Hotel were stolen and used in a three-state shopping spree to buy farm and ranch equipment, tires, machinery, all-terrain vehicles and other goods, federal officials say. Prosecutors unsealed indictments Thursday against five people in what officials say is the largest identify-theft case ever…