From the Tiversa press release: Tiversa today announced the findings of new research that revealed 13,185,252 breached files emanating from over 4,310,839 sources on P2P file-sharing networks within a twelve month period from March 01, 2008 – March 01, 2009. […] The files analyzed included only those identified on behalf of Tiversa’s existing customer base…
Category: Health Data
Aetna server compromised; 65,000 notified
Tom Murphy of Associated Press reports that Aetna, Inc. learned that a web site maintained by a vendor had been compromised earlier this month. Files on the web site included about 450,000 email addresses for job applicants, but even more ominously, names, addresses, employment histories, and Social Security numbers of about 65,000 current and former…
NL: Regional medical dossiers breach privacy rules
From Radio Netherlands: The Data Protection Authority (CBP) says details of people’s medical history are being stored in regional electronic dossiers without their knowledge. The CBP statement is based on investigations into two electronic regional dossiers. It is likely that people who have refused to allow their details to be recorded in the national electronic…
Ca: Investigation underway into medical files dumped in downtown dumpster
Liza Yuzda of iNews 880 AM reports that the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is launching an investigation after a resident near the Royal Alex found medical records blowing in the wind.
Virus compromises Health Dialog Services employee data
On May 12, Boston-based Health Dialog Services Corporation notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected a virus on their network that compromised company data, including data stored in the Internet Explorer browser cache on employee computers. The virus was detected on May 5. The company subsequently determined that the compromised…
MI: State settles lawsuit with psychiatrist
In a case that started in 2007 with medical records being burned on a farm, the Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Department of Community Health has settled a civil lawsuit against Southfield psychiatrist Dr. Soon Kim and Quality Health Plan Inc. for improperly disposing medical records from Greater Detroit Hospital in Detroit. Under the…