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Author: Dissent

New data spill shows risk of online health records – as if we needed yet another reminder?

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson of Associated Press reports: Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker’s crushed fingers, a maintenance worker’s broken…

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FI: Patient medical data on computer found in ditch

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

From YLE: A computer containing thousands of people’s private medical data was found in a ditch on a Turku motorway, according to the daily Turun Sanomat. The patients listed include politicians, businessmen and top athletes. The computer belongs to a private chiropractor, and the patient records and data were not password protected. The staff at…

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Dialogic, Sikorsky, and Thompson Dunavant report recent breaches

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

A few recent breach reports  to the New Hampshire Attorney that did not garner media attention: On August 8, California-based Dialogic, Inc. sent out notifications to employees whose names and Social Security Numbers were on equipment stolen during a break-in on July 17. Also on August 8, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation)…

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Thirty-one Gifts, two breaches, and a bunch of notification letters

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…

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Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Dissent

Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?!  Yonhap News Agency reports:  Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…

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Mount Sinai Medical Center reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Dissent

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two…

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