Paul Melia reports in Ireland: Catering staff were able to access confidential patient information held on a €60m HSE record system which is being rolled out across the country. Workers in Kerry General Hospital were able to access information including the patient’s name, address, admission, discharge date and doctor information, an internal audit of the…
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Spring man with cache of others’ credit cards is sentenced
Mary Flood reports: When postal agents broke down the door of a Spring man’s home last April he was on a cell phone and had two credit cards in his hands that were not in his name. Agents found 15 more cards in other people’s names hidden in clothing pockets and other places around his…
(follow-up) Valdosta State Mops Up Data Breach
Dian Schaffhauser reports: With the help of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and its own campus police, the IT staff at Valdosta State University is continuing to investigate an incident of unauthorized access to a campus server. The server held student and staff social security numbers and grades dating back to the mid-1990s. Some public…
Computer theft raises fraud concern at Cal State L.A.
Larry Gordon reports: Cal State Los Angeles has notified 232 former students that a computer stolen from the mathematics department office last month may have contained personal information such as their Social Security numbers and grades. The names include students who took certain math classes between summer 1999 and fall 2005. Read more in the…
Vanderbilt University students’ information on stolen computer
Erin Prah reports: According to Liz Latt and Beth Fortune in Public Affairs, a professor’s desktop computer, containing the names and social security numbers of 7,174 current and former students, was stolen some time during the weekend of Feb. 6. Letters were sent on March 10 and 11 to the 7,171 current and former students,…
Patient Loses Privacy Claim Against Doctor
Jeff Gorman reports: A doctor did not violate a patient’s privacy by telling her case workers that she needed to stop taking prescription drugs, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled. Teresa Gard suffered a back injury on the job and sought treatment from Dr. Dennis Harris. However, Harris stopped seeing Gard after watching a surveillance…