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Author: Dissent

Data Breach Bills Exclude Health Information

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve often disagreed with the Center for Democracy & Technology, but I laud them for pointing out the glaring holes in proposed federal data security and data breach notification laws that exclude health information.  Harley Geiger writes: One of the negative side-effects of the sectoral approach the United States has taken to privacy regulation is confusion over…

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Cn: DOH reveals massive patient data leak

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

Wow. When I read the headline to this story out of China and the lead sentence about “largest breach… ever,” I expected it would be a P2P leak or something. It wasn’t: Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital yesterday came under fire for leaking patient documents and personal information in the largest breach of privacy ever…

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(Follow-up) Kaiser employee ID theft suspect pleads no contest

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

C. Johnson reports: A benefits clerk, who was busted while about to undergo liposuction surgery using fraudulently-obtained credit card information from one of her victims, has pleaded no contest to identity theft. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office says Mia Garza, 31, was accused of stealing personal identification information from more than 400 Kaiser Permanente…

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OH: Children’s Private Documents Made Public

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dissent

An investigation continued on Wednesday to determine the person who failed to destroy private documents from a foster care and left them sitting outside near a recycling bin on the north side. The files contained personal information including medical information, criminal records and details of the children’s troubled past, 10TV’s Andy Hirsch reported. Arlene Davey,…

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IE: Patient data leak not confined to Tallaght hospital, says chief

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dissent

Elaine Edwards reports: The scope of a data breach involving confidential patient information is much wider than just Tallaght hospital in Dublin, the hospital’s acting chief executive has indicated. The hospital yesterday admitted there had been “unauthorised access and disclosure” of material sent to the Philippines for transcription. Its arrangement with Irish-based company Uscribe, which…

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How sweet it isn’t: Hershey notifies some web site users of a hack

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dissent

A reader sent in this breach notification he received yesterday. Stay with it because although it starts out talking about the security of their recipes and how important accuracy is to them, eventually they get around to notifying people that their names, dates of birth, street and e-mail addresses, and passwords may have been accessed…

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