Reporters Gal Tziperman Lotan and Todd Wallack of The Boston Globe obtained breach reports submitted to Massachusetts. Three of the ones they mention have not been previously reported in the media or on this site, so here’s a brief roundup of incidents to add to databases: John Hancock Financial Services: reported that a partner could…
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Security breach at Atlanta VA hospital under investigation
Craig Schneider has some more information on the breach at the Atlanta VA Medical Center: The U.S. Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has launched a criminal investigation into a security breach of veterans’ medical information at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, according to an internal document obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. […] In…
St. Louis police say computer was attacked
B. Mayhall reports: 24 people may have had their personal information compromised following the cyber attack of one computer in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, authorities said. The attack came through an e-mail in February. The department’s website was not attacked in any way, according to police spokeswoman Erica Van Ross. Read more in…
UK Border Agency and Identity and Passport Service: when employees breach privacy
In Parliament Wednesday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson responded to a question by Chris Gayling: Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 29W, on departmental data protection, what activities constituted inappropriate use of information in each case of disciplinary action…
AU: Privacy dominates Senate e-health inquiry
Ben Grubb reports: Over the last two days a Senate inquiry has delved into the government’s plans to roll-out a 16-digit national healthcare identifier for the majority of Australians, with the main obstacle many parties saw to implementation still being privacy. The inquiry will hand in a report next week which will help inform debate…
5 hospital workers get jobs back in privacy case
Chris Moran reports: Five of the 16 employees fired by the Harris County Hospital District in November after being accused of violating patient privacy laws have been reinstated. The firings were the fallout from October, when Dr. Stephanie Wuest, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine resident assigned to Ben Taub General Hospital, was shot in…