Shaamini Yogaretnam reports: A former part-time instructor at Algonquin College and CHEO employee shared the private information of 283 patients with students, prompting the end of their employment at the college and a privacy investigation at the hospital, the Citizen has learned. On March 10, Adam Vaughan received a concerning letter in the mail about…
Month: March 2017
UK: 26 million NHS patients’ records in security scare over SystmOne “enhanced data sharing”
Did no one really understand what “enhanced data sharing” would permit until now? Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of 26 million patients are embroiled in a major security breach amid warnings that the IT system used by thousands of GPs is not secure. The Information Commissioner is investigating concerns that records held by 2,700 practices…
Affiliated Santé Group learned that patient info was exposed on GitHub for years
So there was another breach disclosed in January that I didn’t find out about until today. It’s an insider-error situation involving a software developer contractor who unintentionally exposed protected health information (PHI) of 550 patients on GitHub – for more than five years. Here is Affiliated Santé Group’s notification: January 30, 2017 RE: Notice of…
Missouri sheriff’s office leaked audio of police informants and victims after ransomware attack
Dell Cameron reports: A data breach at a Missouri law enforcement agency in January left thousands of sensitive records exposed online, including jail incident reports, arrest records, and more. Security researchers who discovered the breach at the Warren County Sheriff’s Department say the leaked backup files—numbering in the hundreds of gigabytes—also include multiple audio recordings…
Stolen backup drive contained personal and health info of Local 693 members
Local 693 Plumbers, Pipefitters & HVACR Technicians has disclosed a breach to those enrolled in its benefit fund. The incident has also been reported to HHS. From its notification to members: We are writing to notify you that a device containing information regarding participants and beneficiaries of the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 693 Benefit Funds (“Funds”),…
Did you hear the one about a Secret Service agent who left a laptop in her car?
From the I-Can’t-Even dept.: An unoccupied vehicle with Maryland plates was broken into and a bag with a laptop and other items belonging to a Secret Service agent was stolen, sources told CBS2. The break-in happened outside of the agent’s home in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, sources said. It’s not like there was anything important on…