When an electronic device with unencrypted patient information was stolen from the unattended vehicle of an Omnicell employee, the University of Michigan Health System notified 3,997 of their patients, but there were other hospitals that were not named at the time. Thanks to WVEC, we now know 56,000 Sentara Healthcare patients treated between Oct. 18 and…
Month: January 2013
Articles on patient privacy and data sharing
The current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association is devoted to patient privacy and data sharing. Some of the articles are freely available in full text. You can find the table of contents here. h/t, Daniel Barth-Jones
HHS announces first HIPAA breach settlement involving less than 500 patients
I was hoping we’d get more information about this settlement and now HHS has provided it. As I had suspected, the Hospice of North Idaho breach affected fewer than 500 patients. And as a commenter suggested, the fine was because they had no risk analysis nor policies for mobile device security. From HHS’s press release:…
Tutu Foundation UK Hacked, Defaced by @SatanSec
@SatanSec came out again today for the first time in 2013 and as a result they have announced an attack on a united kingdom based foundation’s website. The Tutu Foundation UK was launched in 2007 to continue the inspiring and transforming peace and reconciliation work of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Mrs Leah Tutu. Tutu…
Reducing insider breaches – what works?
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of people in different organizations who are concerned with insider breaches in the health care sector. One of those people is Kurt Long, CEO and Founder of FairWarning, a firm that provides patient privacy monitoring (privacy breach detection) systems. So, here’s a…
Arabic News site Durar Shamiya Hacked, 50,000 Accounts Leaked
A hacker @th3inf1d3l who has been leading an operation dubbed #OpFuckMohammad has today kept to a promise to leak over 50,000 accounts from a well known Arabic based website and its forum. The website is Durar Shamiya (https://eldorar.com) and the first hint that this leak was coming was yesterday when @th3inf1d3l leaked 3 other Arabic based sites in the name of…