Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to breach the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office. The undertaking says six laptops were stolen in two burglaries at St Mary’s Hospital, one of which was unencrypted even though it held patient details….
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NHS Direct wrongly emailed patients' data
The organisation’s annual report for 2008-09 reveals that the information, including the names, addresses, NHS numbers, dates of birth and clinical data of about 100 patients, were disclosed without authorisation in October last year. In a statement to GC News NHS Direct said that this happened when a spreadsheet was emailed to three people in…
Toronto Hydro admits customer data breach
Toronto police have launched an investigation after as many as 179,000 Toronto Hydro customer account numbers were illegally accessed in the company’s e-billing system. Toronto Hydro says it contacted police early last week after detecting unusual activity in its electronic billing system. “We saw some unusual activity on our systems, and whenever there is more…
Second member of id theft ring pleads guilty
Stan Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, and Allen Bryant, Resident Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, announced that Jermaine McClure of Jackson, Mississippi, entered a guilty plea to Aggravated Identity Theft. Sentencing is scheduled for October 1. McClure faces a mandatory sentence of two years in…
Carrell Clinic guard indicted
A federal grand jury in Dallas has returned an indictment charging an Arlington, Texas, man, who worked as a contract security guard at the Carrell Clinic on North Central Expressway in Dallas, with felony offenses related to his compromising and damaging the hospital’s computer system, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern…
Two indicted in aggravated id theft
In Alabama, Sharlie Felecia Hyde and Tiffany Michelle Howard have been charged in a federal three-count indictment for aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud. Count One charges credit card fraud. Between June 27, 2005 and August 11, 2005, Hyde and Howard aided and abetted each other in changing the credit card account information of…