The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) imposed a civil monetary penalty (CMP) in the amount of $4.3 million on Cignet Health for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. This represents the first CMP imposed by HHS for HIPAA privacy violations. When Congress enacted the HITECH law in 2009, ...
Two Queens men were arrested for trying to use a stolen credit card to buy a flat screen television at Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream on Saturday afternoon, Nassau County police said. Nyhimes Henderson, 27, and David Boynton, 39, of Queens, were buying a television worth $1,303.49 from Sears at 4:30 p.m. when they showed the cashier ...
The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks and monitors security breaches that involve personally sensitive information, reported 662 incidents that exposed more than 16 million records in its year-end 2010 report. The Banking/Credit/Financial category didn’t dominate the list, but quite a few breaches were attributed to companies in this sector. Some of the incidents involved ...
Fear has always been a big motivator for consumers to change their spending habits. Now banks are beginning to leverage consumer fear of possible identity theft as a way to prop up their shareholder profit. But as the New York Times reports, the strategy may backfire since there’s little evidence that such policies do much ...
A lawsuit filed against Heartland Payment Systems over what is believed to be the biggest data breach in U.S. history has been dismissed. The suit alleged that Heartland failed to adequately safeguard the compromised consumer data and did not notify consumers about the breach in a timely manner as required by law. The court said ...
(NY1 News / Time Warner) – More than two dozen people were indicted Wednesday in connection with a massive identify theft card ring that targeted Apple stores across the city and country. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said 27 people from the so-called “S3 Ring” based in Brooklyn face charges ranging from grand larceny to ...
When the cloud has your small business covered, you’re more likely to weather a stormy economy successfully and brighten your company’s bottom line. Some small and medium-sized businesses are reducing risk by pursuing a new trend in computing, one that can significantly improve the way smaller companies operate. This trend is called “cloud computing,” and, ...
(Milwaukee Magazine) – Wisconsin’s E-Cycle law appears to be working. The legislation, which encourages electronics recycling by banning the dumping of old electronic devices in landfills, was designed to shift the cost of safely disposing the old equipment from local governments to manufacturers and spur the opening of new collection sites around the state. In ...
A large quantity of documents is missing from Bergen County government offices, a key aide to County Executive Kathleen Donovan said Monday. Donovan has asked county Prosecutor John Molinelli to investigate, she added. “On January 1st, when the Donovan executive staff took office, the file cabinets were empty,” chief of staff Jeanne Baratta said. “They’re ...
News out of San Andreas, California today raises eyebrows about a newly elected Auditor-Controller who allegedly spent the last months of 2010 shredding documents instead of closing the County’s books. According to The Record of Stockton, Calif. Calaveras County Auditor-Controller Rebecca Callen has yet to complete the County’s annual financial report for 2010 and questions ...