Mohit Kohli provides some analysis of breaches: The below chart represent highest number of security breaches happing in Healthcare sector of US. The immediate question arise to everyone mind; is it because of low security standard or control available? This is not True!!! There are strong controls like HIPPA (sic) to address security requirement, but…
Author: Dissent
(Update) UPMC Shadyside Hospital employee pleads guilty to HIPAA violation
As a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this blog involving an employee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside Hospital, multiple media sources are reporting that the employee pleaded guilty last week to to taking the names, social security numbers and birth dates of 19 patients there. Read more in the Pittsburgh…
CA: 1200 Sutter Gould Medical Foundation patients' records tossed into dump
Paper medical records belonging to approximately 1,200 patients who visit Sutter Gould Medical Foundation physicians in Stockton and Lodi were lost May 27. They ended up buried in a landfill. The documents – all in one box – contained patient names, addresses, diagnostic test results, provider notes and correspondence, Social Security numbers, disability forms and…
Security May Be Broken, But All is Not Lost
Dennis Fisher writes: It’s been an ugly year so far for the security industry. In fact, if you’re looking at it objectively, almost nothing has gone right in the last six months. The long list of attacks this year–including RSA, Sony, Epsilon, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup and many others–coupled with the emergence of amorphous hacking groups like LulzSec and Anonymous on…
WA: Clark College issues alert after potential security breach
Fox12 News reports: An alert has been issued because of a potential database security breach at Clark College in Vancouver. An email, sent out to employees of the school, stated there was unauthorized access to college computer records that resulted in the potential disclosure of some faculty and student information. School authorities are encouraging people…
Commissioner says Saskatchewan 'bedevilled' by privacy breaches
Jennifer Graham reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says the province is “bedevilled” by a large number of intrusions into people’s personal information. Gary Dickson said in his annual report released Monday that his office opened 47 investigations into privacy breaches at government institutions over the last year. “What we often find is that it’s not somebody…