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NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets' identities

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

 A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…

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UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…

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Data breach reported at Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dissent

Liz Kowalczyk reports: A doctor from Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospital lost an external hard drive on June 21, and the device may have contained medical information for 638 patients. The Brigham has sent a letter to those patients describing the problem. Patients who have questions can call toll-free at 877-694-3367. Information related to inpatient hospital…

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View one year of Medical Identity Theft

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Dissent

The World Privacy Forum has constructed an interactive map that highlights the location of all medical ID theft complaints collected from 2008- Feb. 12, 2009 by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Data Breach Bills Exclude Health Information

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

I’ve often disagreed with the Center for Democracy & Technology, but I laud them for pointing out the glaring holes in proposed federal data security and data breach notification laws that exclude health information.  Harley Geiger writes: One of the negative side-effects of the sectoral approach the United States has taken to privacy regulation is confusion over…

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Cn: DOH reveals massive patient data leak

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Dissent

Wow. When I read the headline to this story out of China and the lead sentence about “largest breach… ever,” I expected it would be a P2P leak or something. It wasn’t: Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital yesterday came under fire for leaking patient documents and personal information in the largest breach of privacy ever…

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