According to HHS’s breach tool, 1,835 patients were notified of this incident. I wonder what the former employee intended to do with the stolen information. Notice to Lasair Aesthetic Health patients regarding Privacy Incident Lasair Aesthetic Health, P.C. (“Lasair”) is notifying patients about an unauthorized acquisition of some patients’ personal health information. We deeply regret…
Category: Health Data
Denmark sent sensitive health data to Chinese by mistake
This may be one of the most epic fails disclosed in 2016. There is just so much wrong here…. Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen of Reuters reports: Sensitive health information about almost the entire population of Denmark ended up in the wrong hands when a letter by mistake was sent to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish…
Doctor devises new database methodology to thwart hackers and end big data breaches
Bill Siwicki reports: Longtime healthcare and technology veteran William Yasnoff, MD, has created a personal grid tactic for tuning relational databases to make it harder for hackers to steal large sets of medical records. And Yasnoff, a managing partner at NHII Advisors, said that hospital CIOs and CISOs or technology vendors can use the personal…
Confidential Info of 388 HIV Patients Feared Leaked in China
Trust of India reports: Personal information of at least 388 Chinese HIV patients has been allegedly leaked in a fraud in which individuals had called them up posing as governmental officials, state-run media reported on Tuesday. “A total of 388 persons have received scam calls in 31 provinces,” Bai Hua, the head of Baihualin National…
Technology firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord
On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…
Ca: Dr. Fernando Rojas ‘terminated’ for privacy breach
More than two years after a disturbing privacy breach was first disclosed, Dr. Fernando Rojas has – FINALLY – been fired by Vitalité Health Authority for snooping in over 140 patients’ files over a two-year period. Read more on CBC. And yes, if it takes you two years to detect snooping and then another two years to…