Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center contracts with Lakeland Radiologists for radiology services for their patients. Lakeland Radiologists, in turn, contracts with CBIZ Medical Management Professionals to bill patients. On February 23, a computer was stolen from CBIZ that contained radiology reports on patients seen at Lakeland Radiologists. According to an Associated Press story, SMRMC is…
OK, so you found a skimmer on your ATM. Now what?
James Doran of the New York Post had an article about two Chase Bank branches in NYC and a WaMu branch in West Hollywood that recently detected skimmers (see also The Consumerist coverage). Now that in and of itself may not be particularly newsworthy by now, but do read the story of how Chase responded…
Penn State reports second breach in 2009
Penn State does not seem to be having a great year in terms of data security and malware. Indeed, when I saw the newest incident in my newsreader, I skipped it at first, thinking it was a previously reported breach, but it’s not. On March 23, the University confirmed that 10,868 Social Security numbers in…
TX: Gexa Energy data system hacked last spring
Fanny S. Chirinos of Caller-Times reports on a breach that occurred almost a year ago, but is first being disclosed to affected customers: Former and current customers of Gexa Energy may have had their personal information compromised last year. The Houston-based company on April 2 issues a letter to customers who had applied for or…
CT: Glitch Leads to Campus Gmail Vulnerability
Seen on The Wesleyan Argus: When Information Technology Services (ITS) switched Wesleyan’s e-mail to Gmail in January of this year, students were able to log into other students’ e-mails for about a month by typing in a username and leaving the password field blank. This glitch has been but one of a multitude of issues…
MD: Patient records stolen
Liz Holland of The Daily Times reports that up to 100,000 patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates are being notified that their personal information has been stolen: The records from Peninsula Orthopaedic — which has offices in Salisbury and Berlin — were stolen March 25 while in transport to an off-site storage facility, Mathias said in…