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Hospital fined €460,000 for privacy breaches after Barbie case

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Dissent

DutchNews.nl reports: The Haga hospital in The Hague has been fined €460,000 for poor patient file security, after it emerged a tv reality soap star’s medical records had been accessed by dozens of unauthorised members of staff. The Dutch privacy watchdog Authoriteit Persoonsgegevens said its research showed patient records at the hospital are still not…

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Ca: RCMP sent confidential details of suicide attempt to wrong email chain: report

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Dissent

Catharine Tunney reports: The RCMP inadvertently sent an account of someone’s suicide attempt to the wrong email chain, leaving the details in the inboxes of more than 160 people, according to a report on the mishap. The email included the person’s name and date of birth, details of the suicide attempt, the injuries they sustained…

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Penobscot Community Health Center notifying 13,000 patients about collection agency breach

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Dissent

Add Penobscot Community Health Center in Maine to the list of entities that had patients affected by the American Medical Collections Agency hack.They posted the following notice on their website: PCHC values the privacy and confidentiality of its patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) incident, which you may…

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Premera Blue Cross pays states $10 million over data breach (Updated)

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Associated Press reports: Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country. The settlement, negotiated with the Washington attorney general’s office and filed in…

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Anaesthetic devices ‘vulnerable to hackers’

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Chris Baraniuk reports: A type of anaesthetic machine that has been used in NHS hospitals can be hacked and controlled from afar if left accessible on a hospital computer network, a cyber-security company says. A successful attacker would be able to change the amount of anaesthetic delivered to a patient, CyberMDX said. Alarms designed to…

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DNA-testing service exposed thousands of customer records online

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Nico Grant reports: DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have warned about as gene testing has become increasingly popular. More than 3,000 user files remained accessible to the public on Amazon Web Services cloud-computer servers until July 1, when Vitagene…

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