Cindy Harnett and Nick Wells report that a Victoria urologist is under investigation by health authorities over allegations he photographed an unconscious, morbidly obese male patient and sent the picture to a friend. Read more on The Province. There are lots of understandable reasons why a doctor might want to share an unusual or interesting case…
Month: July 2013
5 hackers charged in largest data breach scheme in U.S. (updated)
David Voreacos reports: Four Russians and a Ukrainian were charged for their role in the largest hacking and data breach scheme in U.S. history, according to Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. The five conspired in a “worldwide scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole more than 160 million credit card numbers and resulted…
Stanford University Is Investigating An Apparent Security Breach, Urges Community To Reset Passwords (updated)
Billy Gallagher reports: Stanford University urged network users to change their passwords late Wednesday evening, explaining that it “is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure.” Randall Livingston, Stanford’s chief financial officer, emailed the entire Stanford community, noting that Stanford does “not yet know the scope of the intrusion.” Read more on TechCrunch. Alerts…
California medical privacy breach stats, updated
Several weeks ago, I posted some medical privacy breach statistics I obtained from California (see the chart here) This week, I found some more recent figures. I have no idea why the numbers for some entries do not match what they provided me with previously. But it would appear from the more recent figures that…
FR: OVH systems hacked, customer data stolen
Telecompaper reports: French internet host OVH informed its customers on 22 July that the private data of a few hundreds of thousands of European private and business customers had been compromised by a hacker. Founder and CEO Octave Klaba wrote to subscribers that the internal network of its headquarters in Roubaix was breached when a…
Wesley College mistakenly posts private student records online
Nichole Dobo reports: Wesley College published more than a dozen records online that revealed the test scores, grades and written critiques of more than 100 students. The Dover-based private college was not the victim of someone hacking into its system. Instead, the records were posted in 2011 by someone at the school in a folder…