Symantec Corp. released the findings of its 2010 Information Management Health Check Survey, which hammers home a point I made the other day about getting rid of unnecessary data. For the current survey, Symantec surveyed 1,680 enterprises in 26 countries. They found that while 87% of respondents believe in the value of a formal information…
Author: Dissent
HHS panel mulls patient control over select data
Mary Mosquera reports: The Privacy and Security Tiger Team yesterday began exploring how current technologies can help patients make decisions on consent and access to their electronic health records when more sensitive patient data is involved. The team, composed of government and private sector healthcare privacy experts, teed up questions related to how to accommodate…
(follow-up) Phila. woman sentenced in identity-theft case
Sam Wood reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here. A former bank employee was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for stealing the account information of at least seven customers and providing it to members of an identity-theft ring, authorities said. Regina Tolliver, 39, of Philadelphia, worked at the King of Prussia…
Six arrested for compromising 10,000 online bank accounts
Six people have been arrested on suspicion of stealing credit cards, personal information and banking details as part of a suspected online banking fraud. On Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 August 2010, officers from the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), assisted by the MPS Territorial Support Group and the Irish Garda…
MA: Rockland town employees’ old payroll info scattered in street
Not a good day to be a public employee in Massachusetts, it seems. Here’s the second breach report of the day, this one by John P. Kelly: An unknown number of canceled checks bearing Social Security and bank account numbers of Rockland town employees are missing after wind knocked them from a loaded recycling truck….
Hundreds of Ont. patient health files stolen
If you’re going to have a breach, you probably don’t want the authorities finding out about it from the media instead of from you. CBC News reports: The head of Ontario’s privacy watchdog says she “hit the roof” after hearing from CBC News that a computer memory stick containing the medical files of hundreds of…