Posts tagged with: data breach

Financial Advisor at Ameriprise exposes millions in assets via NAS

Do you use a financial advisor? I do, and I recommend mine to others without reservation. Part of that recommendation comes from the manner in which the account data is secured, which provides me more than a modicum of assurance... Read More

Madison Square Garden customer payment cards harvested

On 22 November, Madison Square Garden Company (The Garden) began notifying their customers that a breach of the point of sale (POS) system had occurred, and may have affected those customers who purchased goods at merchandise and food concessions at The... Read More

MSU data breach: Database with 400,000 records accessed

Michigan State University (MSU) has confirmed that on Nov. 13 an unauthorized party gained access to an MSU server containing certain sensitive data which included the personal identifying information of 400,000 individuals. The MSU data breach, characterized by the MSU... Read More

Data breach – Are you prepared? Most are not.

According to the new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Experian, companies are complacent and lack confidence when it comes to data breach preparedness. A result which I found to be most astounding given the fact that every... Read More

Rest easy: China says U.S. OPM data breach was criminal

Reuters recently reported how the Chinese are claiming they have concluded their official investigation into the allegation that the Chinese government were responsible for the Office of Personnel Management data breach which compromised the identities of ~20 million individuals government... Read More

Data Breach – Horizon Blue Cross – two data breaches in five years

Looking for information about the 2016 mis-mailing of EOB’s to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) members?  Read-> Data Breaches Again at Horizon BCBSNJ Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey – Two data breaches... Read More

Community Colleges and Data Security

One normally does not think of a community college or junior college to be a place where data breaches would be of concern. That is of course until it happens, and then the realization hits at just how closely these... Read More

Data breaches in healthcare – The UW data breach

Data breach at the University of Washington – October 2013 In early October 2013 a University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine) employee opened an email attachment and in doing so launched a piece of malicious software (aka *malware*). The employee’s... Read More

Defining the causes of a data breach

I recently crafted a piece for Huffington Post, What’s a data breach, in which I defined the vagaries of the different types of causes of a data breach.  While I list the different types, I welcome opinion on others, and... Read More

Medical Device Security – Are your devices secure?

Many medical devices have telemetry requirements, which require patient data to be both present within the device’s resident memory and to be transmitted from the device to a monitoring or record-preservation device (hard drive or tape). During transmission, are... Read More

Patient Data: The Crown Jewels (Mayo Blog)

I have always been an advocate of protecting one’s personal information and privacy and was personally pleased when the HIPAA standards came into being, as this raised the tide for all medical care providers to a common level of... Read More