From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a penalty of £60,000 to St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London after a vulnerable individual’s sensitive medical details were sent to the wrong address. The information was contained in two letters that were sent out by the Trust in May 2011. While the letters were…
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Georgia Supreme Court considers prisoners' medical privacy
Walter C. Jones reports: The final oral arguments of Supreme Court Chief Justice George Carley’s 33 years on the bench left the state’s highest court grappling Tuesday with how much privacy prisoners can expect when discussing medical issues. Carley’s swan song case is Torrance Demond “Inky” Dunn’s conviction for the 2000 murder of Herbert Ramond…
WA: Olympic College students, employees report credit card fraud
Another recent uni breach? It seems possible. The Kitsap Sun reported on July 3: At least 16 people have reported that their credit cards might have been compromised at Olympic College. The victims — 11 students and 4 employees on the Bremerton campus and one student at the Shelton campus — told college security officers that…
Formspring resets 28m passwords after development server hacked and passwords leaked
Kahla Preston reports: Users of Formspring, a social question and answer website popular among young teenagers, today learned their passwords were disabled by site administrators following a security breach. Read more on The Age. In a message on their blog yesterday, Formspring writes: Urgent: Change Your Formspring Password We learned this morning that we had…
U.S. Medical ID Theft Cost Jumps To $41 Billion
Kelly Jackson Higgins writes: If you are victimized by medical identity theft, chances are you will foot the bill for the fraudulent charges, a new survey finds. The Ponemon Institute’s Third Annual National Study on Medical Identity Theft, which was commissioned by Experian, found that 45 percent of medical ID theft victims end up paying…
Hackers steal financial data from diners at Winchester restaurant
Josh Kegley reports: Central Kentucky residents who recently ate at Puerta Grande restaurant in Winchester are urged to check their bank and credit card statements because of a major data breach. The breach resulted in the theft of credit card information from between 50 and 100 people, with reports still coming in Tuesday, Winchester police…