San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials are warning that patients of Dr. Thomas K. Lee’s dental office are at risk of having their personal information compromised. A tipster called the Sheriff’s Department on July 14 to advise deputies that boxes containing hundreds of personal records were left outside of Lee’s office. The dentist’s office is at…
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Visa To Acquirers: Stop Forcing PAN Retention
Evan Schuman writes: Visa on Wednesday (July 14) sent a direct message to acquiring banks: Stop making retailers retain credit card information unless you want to stop servicing Visa. A key Visa security executive (Eduardo Perez, the head of global payment system security) said the brand is now merely “strongly encouraging [acquirers] to not require”…
Under the media radar: recently reported breaches
In a recent press release, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) pointed out that in some cases, we only find out about breaches because a state lists the reports it receives online. Some recent submissions to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office are a case in point. Although most of the breaches reported below would…
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Ca: Rulings suggest laws on privacy badly outdated
Rather than pussyfoot around the issue, the provincial government should address the concerns raised by Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson in the wake of arbitrators reinstating workers in two health regions who’d been fired for breaching the privacy of patient records. In both cases, the employees worked with medical records, were specifically trained on…
New HHS/OCR site provides additional details
It seems that in some cases, more details about breaches are being provided on HHS’s breach list in the way of summaries. To update some previously reported breaches (links are to prior PHIprivacy.net coverage of the breaches): Carle Clinic Association: Protected health information was released from the covered entity when an imposter, posing as representatives…