Representatives Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) and Will Hurd (R | San Antonio) sent a letter to Deven McGraw, Deputy Director of the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) encouraging the office to focus on developing guidance for health care providers to respond to ransomware attacks under…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Information Commissioner to investigate after Hywel Dda Health Board nurse accessed patient records
The Milford Mercury reports: More than 3,000 Hywel Dda patient records, including test results and doctor’s letters, have been accessed “inappropriately” by a hospital nurse over a period stretching back at least two years, the health board has said. The nurse, who has not been named, was based at West Wales General Hospital, Glangwili, in Carmarthen,…
UK: NHS seeks cure for its costly digital headache
Gill Hitchcock reports: This May two NHS trusts were fined almost £400,000 for failing to protect confidential information. Chelsea and Westminster revealed the email addresses of HIV service users, while Blackpool teaching hospitals published private information about thousands of staff online. But are these incidents simply isolated sloppiness or a growing problem as the NHS digitises its records?…
Thomson Reuters World-Check Terrorist Database, Open For The World To View
Yesterday, I linked to a report about yet another misconfigured database. This was one leaking more sensitive information, as the due diligence data were from Thomson Reuters’ World-Check service, although the 2014 database that was exposed on the internet belonged to neither of those entities. The due diligence aspect is that banks and other institutions are…
CA: cost-u-less cost some customers more after insider credit card theft
Several customers of an Oroville auto insurance company are out hundreds, even thousands of dollars and now police are looking for a woman who used to work there… Oroville police are investigating this case, they say a woman who was fired from cost-u-less on Oro Dam Boulevard stole credit card information from at least 10…
Ex-PwC Duo Get Suspended Jail Terms for LuxLeaks Data Theft
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Two ex-PricewaterhouseCoopers staffers were found guilty in Luxembourg of stealing confidential tax files that helped unleash a global scandal over generous fiscal deals for hundreds of international companies. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet face suspended sentences of 12 months and 9 months and were ordered to pay fines of 1,500 euros ($1,670) and…