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OHSU says data about some patients and employees stolen in a home burglary

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

Crossposted from PHIprivacy.net: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital officials have posted a notice on their web site. While most of the notice concerns patient information, it appears that almost 200 employees had their Social Security Numbers on the stolen USB drive. OHSU has set up a toll free number to respond to patient questions. Information stored…

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UK: Medical notes are found in Bournemouth street

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

Stephen Bailey reports that stolen records with children’s sensitive information were found blowing around the road: “It had information about their jobs, when their nappies need changing, names of people looking after them. The records had reportedly been stolen: A lady, who declined to give her surname, phoned to say the documents were taken from…

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Videos from Health Privacy Summit available online

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

The Health Privacy Summit has made materials and videos available online for its recent conference, “Is There an American Health Privacy Crisis?”  Check them out at http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/d/3cq92g/6X Video Highlights: Patient Story about Privacy Loss: “Julie” bravely tells how she was harmed when her sensitive mental health information was used by staff members of a Boston health care…

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Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Rip Empson reports: Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but…

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Prison workers settle lawsuit

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Anthony Skeens reports a settlement in a lawsuit that I don’t recall seeing before: A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the state for exposing employee personnel information to Pelican Bay State Prison inmates. The settlement last week came after five years of litigation stemming from two incidents in 2006 when the prison…

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TSP head expresses regret over cyberattack

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Kellie Lunney reports that the recent TSP breach has inspired at least one Senator to try to require all federal agencies to have a breach notification policy in place. You’d have thought they would have one already, wouldn’t you, but apparently not…. The head of the Thrift Savings Plan expressed regret on Tuesday over not…

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