On April 8, Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, New Hampshire notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General that paper and electronic records with personal and medical information on 8 patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle on March 20. The hospital provides services to patients in homes and schools, and the laptop and document were…
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Former Fox Entertainment employee arrested; employee data retrieved from home
On April 9, Fox Group notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General that Fox Entertainment Group had learned that employee information including names, Social Security numbers and some compensation data had been acquired without authorization by an employee of Fox’s benefits department. The employee was terminated and subsequently arrested. When a search warrant was executed…
HK: School website tests show up security lapses
Khushwant Singh of AsiaOne reports that (as elsewhere), many educational institutions in Singapore are inadvertently exposing personal information of students and staff on the web.
(Follow-up) AU: Bottle Domains dumped by auDA over security breach
Card Systems is frequently cited as an example of how costly a breach can be to a business, but in Australia, Bottle Domains may become a similar example. Following a breach that resulted in the theft of personal information on approximately 60,000 people that was put up for sale on the internet, the company has…
UK: NHS trusts not allowed to seek alternative patient record systems
The government has brushed aside calls for acute hospital trusts to be allowed to implement alternative electronic patient record systems if the £12.7bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) does not make sufficient progress with its own software. Read more on computing.co.uk
UK: DNA pioneer: Innocents should be removed from database
Rebecca Thomson reports: A leading DNA scientist whose work led to the creation of the DNA database has called for innocent people to be removed from it. Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of genetic fingerprinting, says forcing innocent people to remain on the database will erode public support for the project. Currently anyone who is arrested…