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Author: Dissent

Ca: Health worker loses job after prying into patient files

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dissent

Gordon Delaney reports: A Capital Health employee has lost her job after prying into confidential patient medical files and later telling one of those patients she couldn’t trust herself not to do it again. The patient, Mary Schinold, wants answers about the breach of privacy involving health records at Hants Community Hospital in Windsor. Schinold…

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When Does HIPAA Apply to Banks?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dissent

Howard Anderson reports: The federal government has issued streamlined standards for electronic funds transfers that a health plan uses to pay a claim, as well for related electronic remittance advice. But despite the issuance of a new rule enacting the standards, it remains unclear under what circumstances the HIPAA privacy and security rules might apply to banks…

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The merchant strikes back: Cisero’s sues processor and bank over pass-along fines following alleged breach

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dissent

There’s an interesting lawsuit to watch in Utah. The owner of Cisero’s in Park City is suing their payment processor and bank for deducting money from their account after card issuers fined them over an alleged breach of the restaurant’s system. The case stems from  a March 2008 incident. According to Cisero’s, Visa had notified…

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Israel’s hacker avengers: We’ve obtained Saudi credit card info

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dissent

Aviel Magnezi reports: The major credit card information leak, a by-product of the activities of the Saudi hacker who has been sneering over attempts to locate him, has not been ignored. Israeli hackers who spoke to Ynet claimed on Monday that they have managed to lay their hands on the details of thousands of credit…

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Ca: Computers with personal info stolen from Waterloo Region District School Board (Corrected)

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dissent

I wasn’t even going to mention this breach on this blog.  I originally intended to just add it to DataLossDB, but when I read it, I was somewhat put off by the school board’s actions and statements so I decided to comment on it here. Jeff Hicks reports:  Nine computers stolen from the Waterloo Region…

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Prime Healthcare defends its disclosure of patient records – are they begging for a federal and state prosecution or what?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a situation I blogged about earlier this week where a patients’ records were revealed to media by executives of Shasta Regional Medical Center without explicit patient consent. Michael Hiltzik provides an update to his previous coverage: Prime Healthcare has responded, with a letter and a public statement, to my January 4 column about the…

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