This is one of those breaches where I really don’t blame the company, which in this case is Minnesota-based Ingenix. Ingenix provides web-based lookups so that patients can find providers in their area covered by their health plan. The provider data Ingenix uses is provided by the health plans or preferred provider plans themselves. Ingenix…
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Abbott Medical Optics reports backup tapes with Baylor patients' info stolen
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology has been notified by Abbott Medical Optics that certain backup tapes of information from equipment utilized by the department of Ophthalmology were taken from AMO’s Malpitas, California location. AMO representatives reported that they do not know who took the backup tapes or when they were taken. The information…
Swiss banker who gave WikiLeaks tax evader files escapes jail time for breaking bank secrecy laws
Frank Jordans of Associated Press reports: A Swiss banker who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of coercion and breaking Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws. A judge at Zurich’s Regional Court has sentenced Rudolf Elmer to a fine of over 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,000). Elmer claimed at…
AT&T iPad hackers’ chats were turned in by secret source
Robert McMillan reports: Rhe government’s case against two men charged with hacking into AT&T’s website to steal e-mail addresses from about 120,000 iPad users got a boost last year when a confidential source handed over 150 pages of chat logs between the two and other members of their hacking group. Excerpts from the logs, published…
(follow-up) Privacy czar orders Ottawa Hospital to tighten rules on personal information
Hugh Adami reports: The Ottawa Hospital has again been ordered by Ontario’s privacy commissioner to examine its rules and practices relating to personal health information, following another electronic breach of a patient’s medical records. Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian says in a report that the hospital failed to comply with certain elements of a…
UK: Trust apologizes for stolen patient information
Yesterday, I included an item about a junior doctor who violated security rules and uploaded patient data to his laptop, which was then stolen from his home. Today’s coverage in the Yorkshire Post indicates that the hospital involved is the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, which is overseen by Hull and East Yorkshire…