Everywhere I look, there are data breaches that I would want to include in DataLossDB.org’s database. But as I backfill the database to include incidents reported on my blogs that were never in the database, my research stumbles over tons of other breaches that should also be included. Rather than getting closer and closer to…
Category: Health Data
UK: Details of 'care-in-the-home' patients found in car park
Chris Caulfield reports: Personal details of 50 home care patients, including keycode access to many of their doors, were left lying in a school car park before being found and handed in to the Herald & News. Among the patients was a Member of the British Empire while all those on the list lived in…
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps
The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing. Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent…
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps
The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing. Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent sent the…
UK: Stolen laptops contained some health information
Many entities that are not primarily healthcare entities collect and store health information. Sadly, all too many of them do not adequately protect such data. From the Information Commissioner’s Office today: Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen,…
Brooke Mueller sues rehab clinic; alleges employee sent info to media
She had indicated her intention to sue back in February 2010, and I’m somewhat surprised it took so long, but now Brooke Mueller has filed a lawsuit against The Canyon rehab facility for privacy violations. TMZ reports that the lawsuit alleges the facility sold her confidential information to the media: TMZ broke the story after the…