From the Information Commissioner’s Office, an update and more details on the Racing Post breach: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning businesses that they must be prepared for a targeted attack. The warning comes as the Racing Post signs a commitment to improve its IT security practices after 677,335 accounts were compromised during a…
Month: August 2014
Patient data de-identification: Keeping data private and useful
HealthITSecurity.com talked with Anna Spencer, partner in Sidley Austin’s Washington, D.C. about de-identification methods and provides her perspective on the delicate balance between patient privacy and useful data analysis.
OCR Fines Are the Least of Your Worries in a HIPAA Related Breach
Art Gross argues that OCR fines should be the least of your worries. Read his comments on EMR & HIPAA. Do you agree?
Feds Investigate Idaho Medicaid Mental-Health Contractor For Privacy Violations
Emilie Ritter Saunders & Audrey Dutton report: A federal agency is investigating whether the company Idaho hired to manage part of its Medicaid program has violated patient-privacy laws. Optum Idaho, a unit of United Behavioral Health, took over insurance management for Idaho Medicaid’s mental-health and substance-abuse patients last fall. Local health-care providers who treat those…
Judge declines to cork wine shop’s suit against bank
Lisa Hoffman reports: A Nebraska federal judge has refused to dismiss a wine store’s proposed class action against Nebraska banks that, after suffering an alleged data breach, charged fees on purchases to customers whose credit and debit card numbers were stolen and used by thieves. Judge Lyle Strom of the U.S. District Court for the District of…
70% of finance apps vulnerable to input validation attacks
Help Net Security reports: A growing number of data breaches and security incidents can be directly linked to poor code quality, according to CAST. The data reveals finance and retail industry applications are the most vulnerable to data breaches, with 70 percent of retail and 69 percent of financial services applications shown to have data input…