Apparently there are still clinicians out there who never heard of encryption and whose patient or client data may wind up on re-sold hard drives, as this social worker discovered the hard way. This breach doesn’t speak well for Other World Computing, either. Thankfully, the drive with PHI was acquired by someone who understood the…
Month: June 2013
Ca: Patients’ medical info left on City bus
Michele Young reports: His 80-year-old mother’s medical records were left on a City bus and Darrel Davy isn’t satisfied with Interior Health’s explanation. Davy said Thursday his mother was admitted to Royal Inland Hospital on May 23 and released three days later. She’s feeling better, but he’s been upset since she got a registered letter…
Moore Medical Center Records Safe Despite Tornado Damage
Several weeks ago, I blogged that I hoped Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma had its patient records backed up off-site. I was happy to read this week that they did. Clearly, patient care and availability of records is critical. But I wouldn’t go as far as Jeff Drummond did and declare that they “didn’t lose…
VA Systems Hacked From Abroad
Eric Chabrow reports: Since 2010, hackers from other nations, including China and perhaps Russia, have repeatedly breached Department of Veterans Affairs computers containing unencrypted data on some 20 million veterans, the chairman of a House panel said at a June 4 hearing. In at least one incident, hackers encrypted the unencrypted VA data, making it impossible for…
Anonymous Leaks Documents & E-mails Used by NSA for PRISM
Over the past week there has been huge tension building about the NSA and the way it gets Intel. Its come to light from main stream media that the NSA is said to be working along side some of the worlds biggest social networking websites to extract and mine data for Intel. This alone has caused…
Victorinox Breached, Data Leaked by @Ag3nt47
A hacker who uses the handle @Ag3nt47 has today announced a leak from the well known Swiss army knife maker Victorinox. Victorinox is credited for creating and making the well known Swiss army knife back 1884 by the current owners grand father. When my great-grandfather Karl Elsener opened a cutlery workshop to deliver a soldier knife…