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Hong Kong officials lose personal data on 700 troubled children

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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PA: Computer stolen from medical office

Posted on April 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

P.J. Reilly reports in the Intelligencer Journal: A medical practice in East Hempfield Township is contacting nearly 12,000 of its patients to notify them that a computer was stolen from the office April 17. The computer contained the names, addresses, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers of many of the patients who visited the office…

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Florida man found guilty in Santa Rosa identity theft case

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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Health-care company, state deny personal data was at risk

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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Senate passes Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007

Posted on April 24, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

By a vote of 95-0 this afternoon, the Senate passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007, as amended. The five Senators not voting were Clinton (D-NY), DeMint (R-SC), Gregg (R-NH), McCain (R-AZ), and Obama (D-IL). Prior to passage of the bill, Senator Snowe introduced an amendment to H.R. 493 (SA 4573 [pdf]) that passed….

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Security hole in Harmony's SAMS program exposed personal and health information on Wisconsin seniors and disabled

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Dissent

  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…

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