The FTC will not be presenting any witness to rebut sensational testimony given by former Tiversa employee Richard (“Rick”) Wallace last week in the FTC’s data security enforcement case against LabMD. Robert Boback, CEO of Tiversa, who was accused of essentially being a fraudster and/or extortionist by his former employee, had this to say when…
Category: Health Data
UK: Fax errors lead to data breach at Northumbria NHS Trust
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with an undertaking committing the trust to improving the way it handles patients’ information. The action comes after the trust mistakenly sent five faxes containing information relating to the care of several patients to a member of the public. The faxes should have been sent…
Ca: Patient lab results faxed to business owner, not doctor
CBC reports: A man in western Newfoundland says he has once again received confidential medical information from a health authority on his fax machine by mistake. David Simmons said he received patient laboratory test results to his company’s fax machine from Western Health on three occasions in 2012. This winter, he received test results from Central Health. Read more on…
We have met the enemy, and he is us, Monday edition…
Prepare to groan. The employee who left backup drives with databases on over 39,000 insured by the Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) in a vehicle was… ISMA’s Information Technology administrator. And then, adding to this outrage, the aministrator reportedly filed a delayed police report over 24 hours later. Keep in mind that the drives were…
FL: More details emerge on Orange County Health Dept breach
More details have emerged about a breach noted previously on this site. WFTV reports that the records were stolen from an Orange County Health Department employee’s car, but whether the employee had followed policy is somewhat unclear. Jeff Deal of the news station reports that county officials told him that the employee was allowed to have the…
Health Industry Can’t Protect Your Records from Hackers: Report
Herb Weisbaum reports: Your medical records are a prime target for hackers and identity thieves, but the healthcare industry is not prepared to deal with a surge in data breaches, security incidents and criminal attacks, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute released on Thursday. “Organizations in the healthcare space are not playing…