Information security analytics

Afrihost explained the data leak where 18,000 of its ADSL clients’ names and addresses were exposed online Afrihost informed its clients that their use of Google’s online tools lead to the name and physical address of 18,000 of its ADSL clients become available online for a short while. MyBroadband received a list of around 18,800 names and addresses of Afrihost ADSL clients, which were downloaded as in Excel format. The list was discovered after a Google search.

Saerom Yoo reports: Valarie Henderson, 55, of Salem says she was already reluctant about applying for health insurance through Cover Oregon, the state’s new health insurance exchange. But after she received in the mail sensitive and personal information of complete strangers — also Cover Oregon applicants — what little faith she had in the system evaporated.

A Florida Digestive Health Specialists LLP employee is under investigation after reportedly photographing patients' protected health information without permission. The privacy officer within the group- which has offices all throughout southwest Florida- has said details including names, birth dates, social security numbers and telephone numbers were breached. The group has since notified and warned 4,400 patients.

Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County - Anaheim Medical Center is notifying  patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. In a letter signed by Julie Miller-Phipps, Senior Vice President, Executive Director of Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County, patients were informed that Kaiser Permanente was notified on on September 25 that a flash drive containing patients’ names, medical record numbers, and dates of birth was missing.

Saerom Yoo reports: Valarie Henderson, 55, of Salem says she was already reluctant about applying for health insurance through Cover Oregon, the state’s new health insurance exchange. But after she received in the mail sensitive and personal information of complete strangers — also Cover Oregon applicants — what little faith she had in the system evaporated.

Edward Taylor, Matthias Inverardi and Mark Hosenball report: In the digital age, pen and paper are useful tools for intrigue. In 2007, Sina Lapour, an assistant to a private banker at Credit Suisse, hand-copied the names of potential tax evaders listed on two of the firm’s internal computer systems. By not downloading information, Lapour avoided leaving electronic fingerprints. His employer did not detect his actions.

Hundreds of Metro East health care workers recently learned they may be at greater risk for identity theft. A nurse says a long list of social security numbers were mistakenly mailed to workers. Current and former workers received the mailing last week.  What people assumed was, routine mail, actually stunned some recipients. Imagine the 401k update you receive from work contains a long list of employee names, sounds harmless enough.  But one woman was not happy about what she saw beside each name.

An insurance salesman from Woodmere was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly opened a policy in a customer’s name, police said. Sheldon M. Bressler, 61, is charged with two counts of second-degree forgery, two counts of first-degree identity theft and two counts of first-degree falsifying business records. He will be arraigned on Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.

The first witness, an officer at the National Security Department, said one of the accused stole some important secret information related to state security from his flash drive. He said he was also a member of the board of Hatta Sports Club in Dubai. In April 2012, the witness wanted to write an article about the club’s activities and needed some pictures from M.R., a 42-year old Egyptian and the third accused suspect in the case. The witness claimed that he gave M.R. the flash drive containing the official information for only half an hour.

More than 300 employees, former employees and students at Washington State University are receiving letters in the mail informing them they may have had personal information compromised when hard drives were stolen from an on-campus office last month. WSU Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen confirmed two external hard drives, which may have contained financial and administrative information, such as Social Security numbers, for hundreds of people, were stolen from an office in the school of Biological Sciences in Abelson Hall sometime prior to the report of the theft Oct. 11.