Francisco Alvarado reports: Miami-Dade County Public Schools have a security problem — and we’re not talking bad locks on the local elementary school’s front door. Student information has fallen repeatedly into thieving hands, and the latest lapse comes from an especially embarrassing accused perp: Tizrah Ingram-Johnson, daughter of the late black leader and former school…
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UK: North cop faces data protection breach charges
A Black Isle cop is facing allegations he breached data protection laws by logging into a police computer system to find details on a colleague who was likely to be a witness against him in a Northern Constabulary misconduct investigation. The trial of Alan Heap (43) – whose address was given as c/o Burnett Road…
Houston doctor's office vandalized, patient data on stolen hard drive
A media/substitute notice: The office building and office suite of Jeremiah J. Twomey M.D., was vandalized during the weekend of December 31, 2011, at which time an external drive containing personal and confidential health information of individuals was stolen from Dr. Twomey’s office. Unauthorized use of this data is unlikely. Any individuals who believe they…
NJ: Information stolen from records of 445 Hackensack University Medical patients
Mary Jo Layton reports: Hackensack University Medical Center officials said a former employee stole information from the records of 445 patients and the hospital has been notifying those patients they could be the victims of identity theft. The employee, a clerk, took the information from files at an outpatient clinic. The information included patient names,…
Leakage from website poses threat to Chinese netizens
Xiang Yang provides some interesting statistics. Translated by e Xin, People’s Daily Online reports: … By the end of 2011, a total of 26 website were suspected to have users’ information leaked, involving 278 million accounts and passwords, according to the statistics from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC)….
HK: Suspected theft of reprinted patient records incident at United Christian Hospital
A press release from the government of Hong Kong issued yesterday: The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority: The spokesperson for the United Christian Hospital (UCH) made the following announcement today (March 2) regarding a suspected theft of reprinted patient records: A doctor of the Accident and Emergency Department (A&E) made report…