Information security analytics

Fresenius Medical Care of North America, which operates more than 2,200 dialysis clinics, along with outpatient cardiac and vascular labs and urgent care centers, agreed to the settlement after an OCR investigation revealed the company failed to perform an accurate and thorough risk assessment, which led to five separate data breaches over a five-month period in 2012, The Fierce HealthCare reports

The loss of state secrets poses an extreme threat to national security, with spies, hackers, disloyal or negligent employees usually being behind them.

Hundreds of classified files obtained by the ABC have now been secured by the nation's top spy agency, after it was revealed the papers were found in two filing cabinets purchased at an ex-government furniture sale. The major blunder has revealed the inner workings of five separate governments, sparking fears it will alarm Australia's security and intelligence allies.

A Woodbridge man and his conspirator were sentenced for their role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced, myCentralJersey.com reports.

Even though leaks through portable devices have been less and less frequent, this channel still deserves high attention because of the constant risk of human errors. For example, a laptop containing intelligence data may be stolen, or a lost flash drive with trade secrets may fall into the hands of competitors.

An obscure American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud.

Hackers have breached the systems of Norway's Health South East RHF, with nearly three million patients' data potentially compromised as a result, The Inquirer reports. Health South-East is responsible for the counties of Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder.

Still one of the most popular ways to compromise financial data, skimming is a crime of using an electronic reading device (skimmer) to swipe somebody’s credit card information, including their PIN, and then to clone the victim’s card and steal money from their account. Here are the most large-scale skimming cases.

A lawsuit alleged that Aetna committed a privacy breach when it mailed thousands of envelopes that revealed patients’ HIV medications through the windows, the website BuzzFeed News reports. Aetna has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit after the health insurance company mailed out envelopes that accidentally revealed thousands of patients’ HIV status.

Police have powers to enforce laws, and the abuse of such powers may cause serious damage. This is particularly relevant to confidential information treatment.