CBC News reports: A doctor with Covenant Health is under investigation by Alberta’s College of Physicians and Surgeons for improperly accessing electronic health records to find out information about her partner’s ex-husband. The matter was referred to the college by Covenant Health, after an investigation by Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Frank Work. Work found…
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TX: Teacher’s aide fired, NISD makes changes after alleged ID theft
Lauren Lea reports: Northside Independent School District fired an instructional assistant charged with identity theft, and the district is now making changes within. 25-year-old Jason Miller was let go Thursday, two days after his arrest. Inside Miller’s apartment, Live Oak Police found a stack of forms used to authorize criminal background checks for district volunteers…
Extreme Pizza hacked again
Back in July, I blogged about pizza store chains being hacked. One of them was Extreme Pizza, who had received reports of card fraud from 16 of their west coast franchises after a POS hack in August 2010. Now they’re back in the news with reports of a more recent compromise affecting customers in…
Supreme Court Looks On HIV-Positive Pilot's Emotional Distress Mostly Unmoved
Yesterday I blogged about oral arguments in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, a case that asks the Supreme Court to decide whether The Privacy Act of 1974 allows awards for emotional distress when there is no other harm or injury demonstrated. Over on Huffington Post, Mike Sacks provides a write-up of how oral argument went,…
Survey – More patient data breaches, less security, and more headaches for patients
Ponemon has released a new survey on data breaches in the healthcare sector. The Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, sponsored by ID Experts, is available on their web site, but I want to pull out a few points from the results that I think are worth noting: The number of…
Songs Fever gets dump instead of downloads
The message at the top of the data dump from “LOLIH4X0RDU” was to the point: Songs Fever dump. Dumbasses CHECK FOR SECURITY! (DB also had CC information, but ill leave it out of here.) The data from Pakistani-based Songs Fever, which were also posted on http://hack4cash.net/songsfever.html, contained 1,344 usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords and…