Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…
Month: November 2014
Researchers seek medical data use without patient permission
Joseph Conn reports: The American Medical Informatics Association is asking Congress to amend a central federal healthcare privacy rule, in order to give medical researchers access to patient records without their consent. A see-saw battle has been waged at the federal policy level for more than a decade over patient consent regarding medical records, with…
Ca: ‘Curiosity’ of Island Health employees led to privacy breach, probe reveals
Cindy E. Harnett reports: An Island Health investigation has confirmed a privacy breach when two employees viewed the confidential electronic health records of 112 people to satisfy their personal curiosity. In a statement Wednesday, Island Health said it has confirmed the employees “used their access privileges to the electronic health record for unauthorized reasons —…
Simms Fishing Products notifies customers of payment card compromise
Simms Fishing Products in Bozeman, Montana is notifying customers after their hosting service discovered that malware had been inserted that seemingly captured customers’ name, address, and credit card information, including the credit card number, expiration date, and CVV2 code. Cards use for purchases made between September 1 and November 6, 2014 may have been compromised. Simms notes that their unnamed website…
How sweet it isn’t: Godiva notifies employees that stolen laptop held their data
Godiva Choclatier is notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information was on a laptop stolen from a human resources employee’s car: On October 16, 2014, we learned that a suitcase was stolen from a rental car that a human resources employee was using to visit Godiva’s retail stores that day. The suitcase contained the employee’s…
How sweet it isn't: Godiva notifies employees that stolen laptop held their data
Godiva Choclatier is notifying an undisclosed number of employees that their personal information was on a laptop stolen from a human resources employee’s car: On October 16, 2014, we learned that a suitcase was stolen from a rental car that a human resources employee was using to visit Godiva’s retail stores that day. The suitcase contained the employee’s…