John Goddard of The Toronto Star reports that private information about 1,393 tenants — including names, addresses, phone numbers, social insurance numbers, mental health issues, children’s names, ages, where the children go to school, and landlord disputes — could be accessed online in a database maintained by Landlord’s Source Centre. A tenant discovered the problem…
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Inquiry into how PrimeShares World Markets acquired personal info of Opes Prime clients
Mark Hawthorne of The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is investigating how the private account details of Opes Prime clients were acquired by New York- based PrimeShares World Markets. Read more.
OH: St. Rita’s patients warned of possible ID theft
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
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at Advantage Loans Inc. in Fayetteville, was sentenced to federal prison Monday, more than two years after her license was revoked for falsifying documents and stealing clients’ personal information to borrow money.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…