If this is true, then heads need to roll. And the sooner, the better. Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on…
Month: February 2014
Two Defendants Sentenced In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme Relating To A Health Care Provider
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that Angelo Ponds, 32, of Miami Gardens, and Sean Guillaume, 31, of Miramar, were sentenced February 21 for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme relating to a…
'Hacking' may reveal personal health risks
Well, at least the editor put ‘hacking’ in quotes as this really has nothing to do with hacking and more to do with developing algorithms that may enable re-identification or identification of individuals from genetic databases when the information is combined with other publicly available databases or information. Sarah Knapton reports on the implications of…
Lutheran Church Australia Hacked & 1,484 user accounts leaked
This week hacker using the handle @security_511 has leaked data from two churches already and today they have just announced a third leak. The leak comes from an Australian church named Lutheran Church Australia (https://lca.org.au/) and has been posted to pastebin. The leak contains 1,484 user accounts with user names,email addresses and encrypted passwords as well…
What You Need to Know About Patient Matching and Your Privacy and What You Can Do About It
Adrian Gropper, MD is Chief Technical Officer of Patient Privacy Rights. He writes: Today, ONC released a report on patient matching practices and to the casual reader it will look like a byzantine subject. It’s not. You should care about patient matching, and you will. It impacts your ability to coordinate care, purchase life and disability insurance, and…
Neiman Marcus Missed 60,000 Alerts As Hackers Stole Credit Card Info
Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Michael Riley report: The hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) set off alerts on the company’s security systems about 60,000 times as they slunk through the network, according to an internal company investigation. The hackers moved unnoticed in the company’s computers for more than eight months, sometimes…