Sarah Reeve writes: Yihaodian.com, a Chinese online grocery store controlled by US retailing giant Wal-Mart, has vowed to protect users’ privacy after some of its employees have been accused of selling user information, Global Times reported. The website reported the case to the police and upgraded its website system after it found its user information…
Author: Dissent
Published Data Empowers
Over on The New School of Information Security, Adam Shostack takes off from Jordan Robertson’s article on Experian’s too-frequent data breaches to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart: the value of transparency and detailed information. Do read his post.
UK: Solent NHS Trust patient data left at market stall
Katie Grant reports: Patients’ confidential information has been left at a market stall and on top of a parking meter in a series of data breaches by Solent NHS Trust. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the BBC revealed the trust had breached data protection 93 times in the past two years. Michael Parr,…
Illinois nursing home residents' data stolen
Associated Press reports: The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by the breach. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced the incident Friday. A statement from the department says the briefcase was stolen Aug. 31…
Bulgarian police slammed over breach of patient rights
Police in Sofia have been requesting personal data of all methadone patients in the city, ostensibly as part of an investigation into pharmacy robberies, reports in Bulgarian media said on November 1. The reports drew a sharp reaction from human rights watchdog Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, which said that the Sofia police information requests were illegal…
UK: NHS lost 1.8 million patient records in a year
Official statistics showed that at least 1.8 million sensitive papers went missing throughout the health service in just 12 months. Among the breaches included data security records dumped in public bins and electronic records found for sale on an internet auction site. Other security lapses involved details of terminally ill patients being faxed to the…