Gautham Nagesh reports: The House Energy and Commerce Committee announced a comprehensive review of data security and eletronic privacy issues on Wednesday, beginning with Thursday’s hearing on data breaches at Sony and Epsilon. The announcement signals the committee is likely staking out its place for the upcoming debates on comprehensive cybersecurity and privacy legislation, both…
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Google reveals breaches; reminds users how to stay safe online
Eric Grosse posted the following to Google’s blog today: […] Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems*, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users…
Register NOW for the First International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy
From their announcement: *JOIN THE CONVERSATION TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY* *International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy* *June 13, 2011 at the Georgetown Law Center* “”Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World”” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org ] is the first open, public forum to examine and debate the future of health privacy…
Ex-partner of nurse suspected in murder of Chloe Makin pleads guilty to stealing cash-for-claims data (updated)
Mike Keegan provides an update on a breach mentioned yesterday on this blog: A cash-for-claims agent whose nurse partner was found unconscious at the side of her murdered daughter has been fined after he admitted taking confidential patient data from her. Martin Campbell, 31, obtained names and telephones of visitors to Moorgate Primary Care walk-in…
Delta Dental/The Smile Center breach report
As a small update to my breach entry of May 19, it seems that Delta Dental notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident. In a letter from their lawyers dated May 16, Delta Dental states that they first became aware of the loss from an “unrelated third party” on February 24, and that…
Preliminary Thoughts about the HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures NPRM
Rebecca Herold comments on the HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM). […] Logging access to ePHI has been around since the Security Rule went into effect. So, even though the original accounting for disclosures requirements did not include activities…