In the process of updating PHIprivacy.net to reflect breaches newly disclosed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), I found reference to a breach for which I was able to find a companion statement. The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Neurology Clinic recently notified HHS of an incident affecting 19,264 patients. According to HHS’s…
Category: Education Sector
NC: Researcher Yankaskas appeals pay cut, demotion
More details are emerging about why the breach involving the UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Mammography Registry led to consequences for the researcher. C. Ryan Barber reports: […] School of Medicine Office of Information Systems officials first alerted the University to the breach in July 2009 after uncovering a virus and potential security breach on the Carolina…
School Lunch Risk: Audit of Metro Schools in Nashville Reveals Students’ SSN Not Adequately Protected
Deanna Lambert reports: Channel 4 News has learned Social Security numbers of Metro Nashville Public Schools students were not adequately protected, and the slip-up was traced back to the lunch line. In some Metro Schools, students can’t get lunch without going through a computer. An audit suggests that Metro Schools needs more protection and better…
Cancer researcher fights UNC demotion over data breach (updated)
Gregory Childress reports that a data breach had significant consequences for a researcher. Because I don’t recall ever seeing such consequences before, I think this is pretty newsworthy: A UNC cancer researcher is fighting a demotion and pay cut she received after a security breach in the medical study she directs. Bonnie Yankaskas, a professor in…
Education sector most affected by malware
Angela Moscaritolo reports: During the first six months of 2010, academia was the sector most impacted by malware, according to a report issued Monday by anti-virus firm Trend Micro. The report, which covers cybercrime incidents from January to June, states that 44 percent of all malware infections hit schools and universities, which often have “complex, distributed…
OSU calls breaches of data minor
Encarnacion Pyle follows up on a recent student news story that Ohio State University has about 10 breaches per year with some additional details: […] Ohio State has checked into six possible cases in the past year and found four minor breaches in which the names and Social Security numbers of employees or current and former…