CONFIDENTIAL medical details of more than 1,000 patients have been exposed after a hospital employee left them on public transport. The Addenbrooke’s Hospital worker lost a spreadsheet stored on a USB memory stick along with a printed copy of 1,300 patient names and test records. The details include the dates and types of tests that…
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Hong Kong officials lose personal data on 700 troubled children
Hong Kong – Medical data on almost 700 Hong Kong children and teenagers with social and developmental problems have been lost, the territory’s government admitted Friday. The records were held on a memory card which was stolen from an unlocked room at a Child Assessment Centre in the city’s Tuen Mun district, the government’s Department…
Florida man found guilty in Santa Rosa identity theft case
Kris Wernowsky reports in the Pensacola News Journal: A former Santa Rosa Medical Center nurse took the stand Thursday and admitted that he stole a patient’s identity and used it to get thousands of dollars to purchase vehicles. “It’s wrong, what I did,†Gary Lamar Holt said during his testimony. “I didn’t mean to hurt…
Health-care company, state deny personal data was at risk
Scott Bauer reports: The security of a database containing sensitive information about 240,000 senior citizens and disabled people in Wisconsin was never breached or at risk, the chief executive of the company that controls the data said Thursday. A top official with the state Department of Health and Family Services also sought to assure the…
Security hole in Harmony's SAMS program exposed personal and health information on Wisconsin seniors and disabled
Scott Bauer of the Associated Press reports that a computer program run by Harmony Information Systems has a significant security hole that resulted in exposure of personal and medical information on Wisconsin seniors and disabled people. The program in question, Harmony’s Social Assistance Management Systems program, is used by Wisconsin to compile nutrition information…