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Laptops with PHI do not belong in unattended vehicles, Tuesday edition

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Dissent

On May 10, Baltimore-based Alliance Inc. notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office  that a laptop stolen from an employee’s car on May 3 contained client information in password-protected files. Alliance is a not-for-profit that services clients with disabilities and mental health needs. Most of the affected clients are transients who either drop in or who are…

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Personal details on a toilet wall

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dissent

I’ve blogged a few times about whether the dead have any privacy rights and whether their families have any rights.   To those who still believe that the dead have no privacy nor need any, I would remind them to think of the pain privacy violations can cause the surviving family members. As one example,…

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University of Oklahoma Neurology Clinic notifies almost 20,000 of security breach

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Nine more breaches newly revealed on HHS's web site

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dissent

Thanks to Adam Shostack, I realized that although HHS provides two formats for their breach report database, the two databases do not necessarily contain the same number of breach reports on any given day.  While he was analyzing data based on the .xml version containing 181 breach reports, I had been using the .csv version,…

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HIPAA Follies, Monday Edition: Tweeting that your sloppy security resulted in data theft

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dissent

I’ve reported a number of instances where employees have been disciplined or terminated for imprudent postings on Facebook or MySpace, but a series of tweets I saw on Twitter yesterday demonstrate how to simultaneously diminish the public’s confidence in HIPAA while risking your own future,  140 characters at a time. It started with a twitterer…

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Pointer: Lessons from HHS Breach Data

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Dissent

Over on The New School of Information Security, Adam Shostack responded to my recent blog entry about what can we learn from the HHS breach reports.   Looking at “insider” incidents,  Adam writes, in part: There were 10 incidents, (6% of all incidents involving 500 or more people). They impacted 50,491 people (1% of all…

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