Associated Press reports: A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing number of cyberattacks and is unwittingly being undermined by federal employees and contractors. Workers scattered across more than a dozen agencies, from the Defense and Education departments to…
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More on today's HHS update: newly disclosed incidents
The remainder of today’s HHS update consists of breaches I did not previously cover on this blog. I’ve added details where I can find them. If there are no details, it means I looked, but couldn’t find anything yet. If you can add/provide details, please e-mail this site. Metcare of Florida, Inc reported that 2,557 were…
Obamacare exchange contractors had past security lapses
Be forewarned: I will not allow the comments section for this post to be used as a political platform on Obamacare. Comments about whether government should consider past breaches or problems in awarding government contracts for jobs involving personally identifiable information are welcome. Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Two of the contractors involved in developing the Affordable…
TRICARE Financial Fraud Claims Don’t Make Sense
Sang of AlertBoot provides some sharp – and skeptical – commentary on the amended complaint alleging fraudulent charges in a lawsuit against the Department of Defense over the TRICARE breach involving SAIC: Many news feeds are covering nextgov.com‘s story that victims of last year’s TRICARE data breach are reporting fraudulent credit card charges and bank transactions. …
Victims of TRICARE data theft report financial fraud
Bob Brewin reports that a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense and SAIC over the TRICARE breach has been amended after some of the victims discovered fraudulent charges on their credit cards shortly after the theft. Read about it on NextGov. The complaint indicates the plaintiffs’ belief that the theft was not opportunistic…
What could be worse than 4.9 million? How about 5.1 million?
The HHS breach tool has been updated and I noticed that the SAIC/TRICARE breach entry has been added. I also noticed that although media reports had the breach as affecting 4.9 million, the actual number appears to be 5,117,799. A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Defense after backup tapes were stolen from…