The Sun-Sentinel reports: A senior clerk at the Palm Beach Health Department was arrested Tuesday and charged with using her job to steal identity information from more than 2,800 patients. Salita St. Simon, 30, of Belle Glade, was charged with identity theft, said Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida,…
Month: February 2013
Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner Slams Regina Qu'appelle Health Region After Three Privacy Breaches
Lisa Schick reports: After several privacy breaches Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is telling the Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority it needs to do something to stop its employees from snooping. The recommendations stem from three incidents that happened in the RQHR over the past five years. Read more about the breaches on NewsTalk 650….
IE: Doctor guilty of misconduct after patient files dumped near his home
Luke Byrne reports that Dr. Ogbonna Anoke, a physician who worked at Cavan-Monaghan Hospital between January and September 2010 as a non-consultant hospital doctor, has been found guilty by the Irish Medical Council on charges of serious professional misconduct. The charges were lodged after sensitive medical records were found dumped near his former home: He was guilty…
Banks Ask 5th Circ. To Revive Heartland Data Breach Claims
Megan Stride of Law360 writes that a lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems over their 2008 breach may not be totally dead: A group of banks on Friday asked the Fifth Circuit to revive their negligence claims against Heartland Payment Systems Inc. in multidistrict litigation over a 2008 data breach, saying Heartland’s claim that it shared a…
Trustwave: Detection of intrusions can sometimes take two years
Dan Raywood has a piece in SC Magazine about how long it takes to detect breaches: Companies are still failing to detect data breaches and hacking incidents, with outsiders getting access and sitting on the corporate network for up to two years in some cases. According to the Trustwave 2013 global security report, organisations fail…
Should This Doctor Have Slammed Her Patient on Facebook?
Eric Larson writes that even when a physician’s posting or use of social media doesn’t violate HIPAA, it can still be problematic. Consider this case, involving an OB/GYN at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. The doctor posted something on her Facebook page about a patient who continually was late or a…