Matthew Sturdevant reports: Health Net of the Northeast will be required to pay a “significant sum and spend even more to upgrade security” because of a hard-drive lost last year that contained medical information of 1.5 million Health Net customers in four states — including 446,000 in Connecticut, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office said Tuesday….
R.I. ACLU sues state over rules governing medical records
Felice J. Freyer reports: A suit filed [last] Tuesday alleges that newly adopted regulations fail to adequately protect patient privacy under the state’s developing system for exchanging electronic medical records. The suit by the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union says that regulations developed by the state Department of Health are full…
FL: Citizens Property Insurance didn’t get its mail, warns of fraud
Jeff Harrington reports: Someone filled out a change-of-address form for Citizens Property Insurance. But it wasn’t Citizens. Now the state-run insurer is warning policyholders that mail sent to its headquarters in late June, including payment checks, may have been fraudulently misdirected to a Hialeah apartment. The insurer of last resort, which has more than 1…
Information Security: Governmentwide Guidance Needed to Assist Agencies in Implementing Cloud Computing
From Information Security: Governmentwide Guidance Needed to Assist Agencies in Implementing Cloud Computing GAO-10-855T (pdf), July 1, 2010 Summary Cloud computing, an emerging form of computing where users have access to scalable, on-demand capabilities that are provided through Internet-based technologies, reportedly has the potential to provide information technology services more quickly and at a lower…
18 arrested as credit card cloning gang broken up in Madrid
A group of 18 men and women from seven countries have been arrested in Madrid by the National Police in connection with a credit card cloning scam. […] Police say the gang had the contacts and the infrastructure to, in less than six hours, obtain the bank details of the stolen card owners and use…
MA: State’s error unveiled Social Security numbers
Todd Wallack reports that the Massachusetts secretary of state’s office goofed when it responded to an information request from IA Week, an investment industry publication. Instead of sending the requested list of registered investment companies, it sent a list of 139,000 investment advisers registered with the state, complete with their information: In addition to their…