Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The records – which should have been kept in a dedicated storage area – were put in a disposal room due to lack of space. The records were then mistakenly removed from…
Month: October 2011
Class action lawsuit filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Multi-Specialty Collection Services
Sue Dremman reports that a lawsuit has been filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and its former vendor, Multi-Specialty Collection Services, LLC. You can read about it on Palo Alto Online. This is one of those cases where I really do view a breached entity as a victim because SHC seems to have done everything…
GAO: Federal network security breaches spike 650 percent
Aliya Sternstein reports: Reports of network security incidents at federal agencies have soared 650 percent during the past half-decade, jeopardizing the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive government information, federal auditors charged in a congressionally mandated report. The most prevalent types of cyber events included infections from malicious code — 30 percent of incidents; violations of…
Supreme Court refuses to hear case on medical records consent
Warren Richey reports: The US Supreme Court on Monday turned aside an appeal involving the scope of privacy protections for a patient’s medical records when a state agency seeks to force a doctor to disclose those records without first obtaining a patient’s consent. At issue was a Maryland law that empowers an oversight board to…
Russians’ personal data posted online
From Komsomolskaya Pravda: The scandal erupted on October 1, when a group of users registered three sites – rusleaks.com, rusleaks.net and rusleaks.org – which give free access to Russians’ personal information, including passport data, mobile phone numbers and traffic police records. The project’s authors claim corruption can be defeated “only in conditions of close public…
CO: Sensitive Patient Records Found Scattered At Shopping Center
Don Champion reports: An Aurora street sweeper found hundreds of sensitive dental patient records scattered near a Dumpster behind an Aurora shopping center on Saturday. The billings records contained patients’ Social Security numbers, birth dates, names and addresses — information that could be abused by identity thieves. […] The documents trace back to Dentistry at…