A visitor to St Bernard’s Hospital found a list of patients scheduled to visit a particular doctor. The list was next to a rubbish bin in a public area of the hospital. The list included patients’ names, contact numbers, dates of birth… A complaint was lodged with the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority – and the Gibraltar…
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State Government Can't Sue Itself, Court Rules
An Indiana agency that protects the interests of patients with developmental disabilities can’t sue the state’s social services administration to obtain the medical records of a mentally ill patient who died, the 7th Circuit ruled. A branch of state government cannot draw on federal civil rights laws to sue another branch of government, the Chicago-based appeals court decided….
Soldiers' emotional battle scars put doctors in dilemma
Tim Juneman went to a Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist in January 2008 to talk about his recurrent thoughts of suicide. The 25-year-old Washington State University student was an Iraq war veteran who had survived a year of tough fighting that left him with a twin diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain…
Clampi Trojan stealing online bank data
Hundreds of thousands of Windows computers are believed to be infected with a Trojan called “Clampi” that has been stealing banking and other login credentials from compromised PCs since 2007, a security researcher said on the eve of the Black Hat security conference. Clampi, also known as Ligats, Ilomo, or Rscan, infects computers in drive-by…
Data of soldiers, patients found on P2P
The personal information of 200,000 soldiers and 20,245 hospital patients, along with other critical data from government networks, is being made to the public through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to testimony yesterday at a hearing of the House Government and Oversight Committee. The security breach included data like names, Social Security Numbers, addresses, illnesses, next…
Code Blue: nurses’ details at risk
KIRO 7 investigated a report that 30-40 boxes containing personal information of nurses — “medical records, social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial records, legal documents, bank records, W2s” — were being dumped in garbage cans of a local spice shop over the past few weeks: The files appear to belong to a company called Code…