So how long before we start seeing disclosures of HIPAA breaches related to employees snooping in ebola patients’ files?
Month: October 2014
Key findings from Ponemon Institute’s ‘Cost of Cyber Crime’ studies
Neil Ford writes: Ponemon Institute has released its 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime, based on regional Cost of Cyber Crime studies for 11 countries, including France, Germany and Italy. This post summarises the key findings of the European studies, and shows what you can do to protect yourself from cyber security risks using the international standard for best-practice…
TN: HIV records mistakenly sent to Metro school
WSMV reports on that Metro Health Department, which reported a breach over the summer, has had a second breach. Both breaches resulted from the department moving offices. In the newly disclosed breach: a file cabinet containing files on patients with HIV that was supposed to be sent to a surplus warehouse was actually sent to…
SC mental health worker’s laptop stolen in Rock Hill
Anna Douglas reports that a laptop with sensitive information was stolen from a Spartanburg Area Mental Health therapist’s car, but information on the laptop was (likely) encrypted. The laptop is used to upload patient information to a secure network via the Internet, said Mark Binkley with the department in Columbia. As a security feature, Binkley…
Obama orders feds to adopt credit-card technology limiting identity theft
Eric Garcia reports: In an effort to combat identify theft, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government-issued credit cards to use “chip-and-pin” technology. Read more on MarketWatch. You can access the full text of the Executive Order here. It also includes helping ID theft victims remediate more quickly.
Ebola’s latest victim: privacy
Bob Collins writes: News media has, basically, thrown the privacy book out the window when it comes to extending privacy. CNN, in its story “Who is Nina Pham,” for example, drove to the woman’s church to get the dirt on the nurse, learning that she’s very religious. Ah. Meanwhile, Amber Joy Vinson, another nurse infected…