Eric Berger reports: A laptop computer containing information on 30,000 patients at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has been stolen. The loss, reported Thursday, is one of the largest of its kind at a Texas Medical Center institution. The data included specific medical information on about 10,000 of the patients, and was on an unencrypted computer…
Author: Dissent
Programming Note
I’ll be offline until Monday, traveling with some friends. Blogging will resume Monday. Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their week!
Alaska Medicaid settles HIPAA security case for $1,700,000
It was one of the first breaches reported to HHS under HITECH, and it had never been in any media reports that I had seen. Even to this day, HHS’s breach tool does not provide any specifics other than 501 people were affected by the theft of a USB drive. But in a press release…
From the a-little-birdie-told-me dept.
A Charter One customer called Charter One after her debit card was refused at a merchant. It seems that someone had tried to put through a micro-charge on the card that morning and Charter One had cancelled the card because of the suspicious activity. When she asked why she hadn’t been called about the matter,…
UK: Company linked to unsecured stolen laptop could run council offices
From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: The organisation which left thousands of pieces of personal data unsecured on a laptop stolen from Glasgow City Council could be given control of key council buildings. ACCESS was responsible for issuing unencrypted laptops against council policy on over 160 occasions earlier this year, according to a damning report by the…
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Woo hoo. I had such a headache trying to sort out Wyndham’s breaches (see previous blog entries on Wyndham) and was concerned that at least one state had removed their notification from public view on the state’s web site because Wyndham had asked that it be treated as confidential. Now it seems the FTC has…