Ted Strong reports: Roughly 300 transcripts, some containing complete Social Security numbers, were accessible through a University of Virginia website on Tuesday morning due to an as-yet unspecified human error, university officials have confirmed. The incident came to light when a student conducting a Google search for an image of himself found his transcript online….
Author: Dissent
Top Experts Discuss Privacy Risks at 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy
Patient Privacy Rights and Georgetown University Law Center’sO’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Host Event Psychiatry Patient’s Story Highlights Growing Threat to Privacy WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– When a lawyer named “Julie” sought psychiatric treatment in Boston, she never imagined that the notes of sessions with her therapist would be digitized and made available to…
Finally, a contest that I can endorse!
Via ID Experts: Have some ?HIPAA? fun with us: Join our pool, guess the Final Rule date & page length. It’s for a good cause! I hope you’ll join their Final Countdown contest. A donation will be made by ID Experts to Wounded Warriors Project in your name if you win. You’ll also get an Amazon gift…
Employee of IT contractor sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing info on law and CPA firms’ clients
SACRAMENTO, CA—Michael Garcia, 39, of Stockton, was sentenced on May 31, 2012 by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 57 months in prison for fraud in connection with computers and in connection with an access device, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Garcia was employed as a…
Entities need to up their game when it comes to breach disclosures
Help Net Security reports on a new Experian/Ponemon survey, “Consumers confused about data breaches.” Over 60% of respondents had trouble understanding the notification letters or felt the entity did not give them sufficient details. One take-home message is what I’ve been saying for years: breach notifications need to be written in plain language and include…
CloudFare breach cause for concern (updated)
Given the number of hacks revealed on a daily basis, I long ago gave up on trying to mention them all on this blog, but this one merits its own entry. Eduard Kovacs reports that although CloudFare has acknowledged it was compromised, the co-founder and CEO may not be correct in his understanding of the breach:…