Lindsay Fortado reports: Ryan Cleary and another member of the LulzSec “hacktivist” group, pleaded guilty to disrupting websites at Sony Corp., the Central Intelligence Agency and News Corp. while denying they illegally posted confidential data. Cleary, 20, pleaded guilty to six of eight charges filed by London prosecutors at a hearing today. Jake Davis, another…
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UK: Inquiry call over missing NHS records
More than 100 health records – almost half of them in NHS Grampian – went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information, according to details in a Freedom of Information response. NHS Grampian insisted its 50 records were not “lost” but “reported missing”. Read…
OH: Towards Employment warns clients of data breach, possible identity theft
Robert Schoenberger reports: Towards Employment, a Cleveland non-profit agency that has helped more than 100,000 low-income residents and ex-convicts find jobs over the past 36 years, is warning its clients that they are at risk for identity theft. Last month, a thief stole a Towards Employment laptop that held a database with the names, addresses and…
Ca: Hospital-record outsourcing raises privacy, safety fears
Kathy Tomlinson reports: A Vancouver man who transcribes medical records for a living says patients have reason to worry about the privacy and accuracy of their medical information. Donan Forde says that’s because all dictated reports by hospital physicians in B.C.’s Lower Mainland will soon be transcribed by private contractors, accessing and working on records…
Ca: Class action launched against N.S. hospitals for privacy breach
An update to a breach affecting Roseway Hospital, reported previously on this blog. Eva Hoare reports: A Halifax law firm has started a class action against a provincial health authority after a worker accessed the private medical records of hundreds of South Shore patients. […] An investigation into the records breach, made public in mid-June,…
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina notifies members of mailing breach
Somehow, BCBS of North Carolina mailed out about 100 members’ old PHI to new members in their new member packets. BCBS is blaming a software glitch. Read more on Examiner.com