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Five Romanians arrested for hacking into U.S. pharmaceutical companies

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Dissent

Dan Kaplan of SC Magazine reports that five people have been arrested for illegally accessing computer systems belonging to unnamed U.S. pharmaceutical companies. The hackers allegedly installed keylogger software to steal card data on point-of-sales systems. Lucian Constantin reports that according to a DIICOT press release (in Romanian), the remote administration system used by the…

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HK: Lost flash drive with patient data wasn’t password-protected

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

Adele Wong of The Standard reports that the Hospital Authority has been urged to improve security to avoid further losses of patients’ records following another incident involving a lost flash drive with unencrypted data. In this most recent incident, a physician from the obstetrics and gynecology department at United Christian Hospital misplaced a USB flash…

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Lessons not yet learned

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

For those readers who do not regularly read the companion breach site, DataBreaches.net, there have been five healthcare-related breaches reported in the past seven days.  Two of the reports involved paper records and improper disposal.  The other three incidents involved theft from business associates or third parties.   In all three of the theft cases, the…

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NC: Moses Cone Memorial Hospital patient data stolen from vendor

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

In what appears to be the third incident in the past week involving patient data and a third-party breach, personal information of more than 14,000 Moses Cone Health System patients was on a laptop stolen from VHA in Georgia. According to VHA’s web site, they serve 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and more than 21,000 non-acute care…

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MS: CBIZ Medical Management Professionals computer with patient records stolen

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Dissent

Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center contracts with Lakeland Radiologists for radiology services for their patients. Lakeland Radiologists, in turn, contracts with CBIZ Medical Management Professionals to bill patients. On February 23, a computer was stolen from CBIZ that contained radiology reports on patients seen at Lakeland Radiologists. According to an Associated Press story, SMRMC is…

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MD: Patient records stolen

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Dissent

Liz Holland of The Daily Times reports that up to 100,000 patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates are being notified that their personal information has been stolen: The records from Peninsula Orthopaedic — which has offices in Salisbury and Berlin — were stolen March 25 while in transport to an off-site storage facility, Mathias said in…

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