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AU: 7000 patient records from Women’s and Children’s hospital exposed online in embedded data- for 13 years

Posted on August 4, 2018 by Dissent

Simeon Thomas-Wilson reports: Medical records of more than 7000 people were exposed online for 13 years, forcing an urgent review by SA Health into whether there were any other breaches. Names, date of birth and test results for around 7200 pathology tests at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital from 1996 to 2005 were leaked online…

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11th Circuit Decision in LabMD Case Could Have Repercussions Beyond the FTC

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Dissent

F. Paul Greene and Daniel J. Altieri consider the landscape after the 11th Circuit’s decision in the LabMD case, noting the state-level Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices (“UDAP”) laws and The Nationwide Assurance of Voluntary Compliance  may become more prominent as tools for data security enforcement actions. They write, in part: The Nationwide Assurance…

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Web doc iCliniq plugs leaky S3 bucket full of medical files

Posted on August 3, 2018 by Dissent

Another data leak by an Indian firm, it seems.  John Leyden reports on this one: Online medical consultation service iCliniq has restricted access to thousands of medical documents it left in a public AWS S3 bucket. iCliniq acted earlier this week only after the slip-up was brought to its attention by German security researcher Matthias…

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Was LabMD Hacked? A Key Issue in Lawsuit Against FTC Lawyers

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: Did LabMD, the now-defunct cancer testing company, expose sensitive patient information with shoddy data security practices as U.S. regulations have charged, or was the company victimized by a private forensics firm extorting it for business – raising the troubling question of whether the entire case against LabMD was…

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Joint Base Charleston notifies airmen of possible breach of personal information

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Harve Jacobs reports: A mistake made at a medical clinic caused a potential breach of personal information of current and former airmen at Joint Base Charleston. The base says folders of paper records were improperly created at a base clinic. A former airman says he received a letter from the 628th medical group mentioning a “potential…

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NSW: ‘Disturbing’ privacy breach revealed: Over 1,000 NSW Health medical records abandoned in derelict building

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Dissent

Ange McCormack reports: More than 1,000 confidential medical records have been left on the floor at a derelict former aged care facility operated by the New South Wales Government. The privacy breach, uncovered in a triple j Hack and ABC News investigation, is believed to be one of the largest of its kind in Australian…

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