Kerry Diotte reports: Personal medical information isn’t safeguarded in a proposed new provincial health bill, says Alberta’s NDP Leader Brian Mason. The province is now inviting public input into changes for Bill 52 – a piece of legislation that has also been roundly criticized by doctors. “I don’t think there are near enough safeguards on…
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Jackson Memorial Hospital statement on data theft
John Dorschner of the Miami Herald reports that personal information of more than 200,000 visitors to Jackson Memorial Hospital between May 2007 and March 2008 was on a hard drive that was stolen from the hospital’s mainframe data center on or before February 11. According to the hospital’s CIO, no Social Security numbers or financial…
UK: Medical records from York Hospital found in street
Nicola Fifield of The Press reports that a document containing personal and medical information on 19 patients at York Hospital was found on a sidewalk nearly two miles from the hospital. As an example of how troubling such breaches can be, one notation indicated that a named patient has HIV and syphilis.
TX: Medical Records Found Flying Around Parking Lot
MSNBC has a small item from NBCDFW.com that a Dallas man found a box full of medical records that included Social Security numbers in a parking lot after someone reportedly broke into a doctor’s storage unit. Neither the name of the doctor nor the name of the storage facility were indicated in the news story.
UK: Council’s contractor reports laptop theft
Hayley Mace of EDP24 reports that the Suffolk Coastal District Council has suspended its work with a contractor, Lalpac, after a laptop containing unencrypted data on 3,000 was stolen from an employee’s home.
Aussie stumbles on 19,000 exposed credit card numbers
Ry Crozier of iTnews reports: A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers, including up to 60 Australian numbers. The discovery by a local IT industry worker was made by mistake and appears to be caused by a known issue with the Google search engine, in which the pages of…