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IU addresses information breach at School of Optometry

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dissent

The Indiana University School of Optometry has notified 757 patients that a computer server on which certain health information was stored was visible on the Internet for almost a month, between August and September 2011. The server, containing information relating to patients seen by a former faculty member of the school, Kevin E. Houston, O.D.,…

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Some days, I pull my hair out, Thursday edition

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Details of 'care-in-the-home' patients found in car park

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Stolen laptops contained some health information

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

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,…

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