Robert McMillan has more on the oDesk breach/extortion attempt I mentioned yesterday on this blog. Significantly, Bob reports: On Friday, oDesk said no user information had been compromised by the hack. “We will continue to work with law enforcement to ensure that the person who unlawfully accessed our domain registry in 2009 is held accountable…
Author: Dissent
When will people stop leaving laptops in cars?
Associated Press adds some details to the Harrisburg Project/Illinois State Board of Education breach reported previously on this blog. According to AP, one of the details is that the laptops were stolen June 8 “from a car at a Palatine hotel.” So the laptops were left in a car? Seriously, folks?
Boulder Community Hospital involved in nurse ID theft case
Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
Ca: LHSC probes confidentiality breach
Jonathan Sher reports: Confidential patient records with names, health card numbers and handwritten notes about treatments have been found exposed on the grounds around London’s Victoria Hospital, The Free Press has learned. The records were found in an area near the northwest corner of the grounds frequented by delivery trucks. According to a good Samaritan…
Local agency reports data breach of PASSPORT program info
Mansfield News Journal in Ohio reports: Area Agency on Aging serving several area counties said today that a laptop containing personal health information of thousands of clients was stolen two weeks ago from a vehicle. According to a press release from the Ohio District 5 office, the computer was assigned to a PASSPORT case manager and held…
(update) NHS North Central London deny risk to patients over data loss
David Hardman reports that NHS North Central London claims there is a “very low risk” patients could be identified from the data on a laptop stolen from London Health Programmes that contained information on 8.63 million patients: One of the computers contained large amounts of personal details – according to a national newspaper it held…