Like too many consumers, reporter Evelyn Wilkerson seems to have been living under a rock: Sometimes in journalism, a story appears right in front of you. That’s what happened with Eyewitness news Morning Anchor, Evelyn Wilkerson — when a family friend became a victim of identity theft after having a stroke. So, she dug into…
Category: Health Data
KR: College student arrested for hacking 104 websites
Koh Seok-Seung reports: The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that it has arrested a 20-year-old college student yesterday on the suspicion of hacking 104 websites across 24 countries in a bid to show off his technical prowess. The student, surnamed Jang, collected 280,000 pieces of information from November 2013 to August by hacking various…
Goldilocks and the three data breach estimates
Estimate in haste, repent in leisure? Over on PHIprivacy.net, I recently reported on a breach in Jersey City involving patient records stolen from a shed behind a doctor’s office. The first media report, on NJ.com, said Dr. Nisar A. Quraishi told police that 40,000 patients’ records had been stolen. At 40,000, that incident would qualify as the second largest breach…
68% of Healthcare Data Breaches Due to Device Loss or Theft, Not Hacking
Jasmine Pennic reports: 68 percent of all healthcare data breaches since 2010 are due to device theft or loss, according to the 2014 Healthcare Breach Report from Bitglass. Despite the recent headlines of hacker attacks to hospitals, only 23 percent of healthcare data breaches were a result of cybercriminals compromising networks and exfiltrating data. The findings come…
Will this lesson be learned?
When I saw the headline, “Class action lawsuit seeks to send message about the importance of safeguarding data,” I thought, “Oh, puhleese, how many times are we going to claim we’re just trying to send a message? Why haven’t they gotten it already?” But then I kept reading a news story by Joel Griffin, and…
ME: Island Nursing Home successfully sued by former employee
It’s not often we see an employee lawsuit against an employer over lousy data protection, and when we do, it’s more likely to be potential class-action lawsuits by employees following a hack or other data breach. In this case, an individual employee sued her former employer for not adequately storing and protecting her information. Faith DeAmbrose…