Dan O’Connor reports: Before-and-after neck-to-knees photos of a 64-year-old cosmetic surgery patient that somehow appeared in a newspaper article about her surgeon without her permission are at the center of a federal lawsuit in St. Louis. Last November, a jury awarded $100,000 to the plaintiff, identified in court records only as Jane Doe from Bartow,…
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Smaller companies challenged to comply with Massachusetts’ data privacy rules
Jill Gambon reports: Eight months after the state’s tough, new data privacy regulations went into effect, many businesses are still sorting through the rules and working to bring their firms into compliance. The regulations, which went into force in March, are intended to protect a consumer’s personal information from identity theft and other privacy breaches…
While everyone's discussing the cost of breaches to hospitals…
Not surprisingly, a lot of the headlines from the Ponemon study are that American hospitals spend about $6 billion/year due to data breaches, or around $1 million+ per hospital/per year. But the costs of a data breach that result in a lawsuit are considerably higher. In talking with Rick Kam, the President of ID Experts,…
Identity Theft Reported By 33% Of Healthcare Organizations
Nicole Lewis reports: A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) survey has revealed that 33% of respondents said their organization has had at least one known case of medical identity theft, and that some cases may never be reported. In addition, only 17% of respondents working for medical practices said they were likely to…
Why data breach costs are really going down
Rafael Ruffolo reports: A new study by Telus Corp. reveals that while Canadian organizations reported 29 per cent more data breaches in 2010 versus the previous year, the annual cost of these security issues has dropped substantially. The telecom giant’s report, which polled 500 business and IT professionals, was part of a joint study with…
Ug: Key data stolen from main government registry
Yasiin Mugerwa reports: A substantial amount of official data, including some classified documents on deaths, births and companies has been stolen in what appears to be an “inside job” involving officials in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard yesterday that 28 computers at Uganda Registration Services Bureau, formerly…