In June, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust were hit with a £325,000 monetary penalty for a data protection breach. Rebecca Todd reports that they ultimately paid £260,000, a 20% “savings” for prompt payment that is offered to those being fined.
Author: Dissent
Curb your enthusiasm!
Maybe one of the mantras of data protection should be “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” In 2009, Yankees fans enthusiastically threw papers out of the window during the team’s World Series celebratory parade through the Canyon of Heroes. The unshredded papers included files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test…
CHRISTUS St. John reports patient information breach
Through the law firm of Baker & Hostetler, CHRISTUS St. John Hospital notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving unencrypted patient information on a lost memory stick. The Houston-based hospital learned of the September 25th incident on September 27th, but a search was unsuccessful in recovering the drive, which contained the…
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question
The three countries that have reported breaches that affected their entire population (or almost the entire population) are Belize, Israel, and Greece.
Oak River Insurance notifies 2,700 after employee disclosed workers’ compensation claims information
Noah Buhayar of Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports another insurance company has suffered a breach: Oak River Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A), asked clients to guard against identity theft after an employee released some of their personal information. The data are tied to about 2,700 workers’ compensation claimants who had spinal surgery…
UK: Man charged over hacking attempts involving universities and Kent Police
Cambridge News reports: A man has been charged with cyber attacks on the websites of Cambridge University. Lewys Martin, 20, is also accused of cyber attacks on the websites of Oxford University, and Kent Police. Martin, of Walmer, Kent, faces charges relating to the theft and use of personal data and allegedly failing to disclose…