A bag stolen last month from the car of a home-health employee for St. Rita’s Medical Center contained personal and/or medical information on 242 patients, including, in some cases, Social Security numbers. Read more in LimaOhio.com
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Google says new privacy rules don’t affect its PHR
[…] Physician Roni Zeiger is product manager for Google Health. Zeiger said that Google hasn’t changed its position regarding HIPAA, notwithstanding the new law, which encompasses the IT provisions of an earlier piece of legislation called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH. “Our understanding is that HITECH, which is…
FL: Personal info on computers stolen from repair shop
Dozens of families in Volusia County had their personal information stolen when computers were stolen from a repair shop, Instant IT. And the repair shop discovered it may not have insurance to cover the theft…. Read more on WFTV
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Kimberly Taylor, a former loan officer at Advantage Loans Inc. in Fayetteville, was sentenced to federal prison Monday, more than two years after her license was revoked for falsifying documents and stealing clients’ personal information to borrow money. More. Hugh Rodley and David Nash have been convicted for their parts in…
Concerns over increase in Facebook hacking
Computer experts called today for Facebook to review its security processes after the social networking website was hit by hackers five times in a week. Four separate “rogue applications” and a virus targeted users of the site, according to security firm Trend Micro. Although there is no evidence that people’s personal details were stolen by…
Spotify breach creates password hack risk
John Leyden reports: Popular online music service Spotify has warned of a security breach that may have exposed user passwords and other sensitive data. A notice – posted on Wednesday – explains that a bug in Spotify’s protocols that was recognised and resolved in December was more serious than first suspected. Last week Spotify learned…