Aha! I’ve been waiting to find this on the Internet and thanks to MesoRx, I’ve found it: I agree with Millard Baker completely. Every time I see that ad run on TV I wonder if GE realizes that it’s ad backfires somewhat. Yes, it demonstrates the virtue of having one’s medical records available quickly, but…
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FL: Hospital report out on shark victim photos (updated)
Bryan Garner reports: Martin Memorial completed an internal investigation regarding a privacy breach involving Stephen Schafer, a victim of a fatal shark attack on Feb. 3. […] Martin Memorial officials received a tip that hospital employees and possibly others took cell phone pictures of Schafer’s dead body and mailed them to others in violation of…
Ca: Private bank information discarded (updated)
Sensitive documents containing personal banking information were recently discovered in a Campbell River recycling depot by a Nanaimo man. The documents were found at the Vancouver Island Recycling Centre earlier this month and the discovery raises questions about the proper disposal of sensitive information by financial institutions. A multi-coloured plastic ribbon, stretching about 15 metres…
WA: UW medical records compromised
Mimi Jung reports: An alarming letter was sent to Charles Tomaras from the UW (University of Washington) Medical Center letting him know that someone had stolen his personal information, including his Social Security number, credit card number, birthdate and address….. The hospital says the information of up to 210 people could be compromised and thought…
NSW Govt ousts web developer over security breach
Ry Crozier reports: The NSW Government has terminated its relationship with the developers of the state’s transport blueprint website after they admitted a security lapse – rather than hack – was the cause of a document leak. Transport minister David Campbell sought to make “a brief clarifying statement” to state parliament late yesterday after causing…
Large-scale credit card data robbery in Helsinki
More on a breach covered here previously: The data from as many as 100,000 credit cards were endangered by a security breach, the financial paper Kauppalehti reports. “The Finnish police is investigating the data theft of at least 40,000 credit cards from a computer in a store in Helsinki, reports the Bloomberg news agency. The…