Sum Lok-kei and Elizabeth Cheung report: Patient data at Hong Kong’s public hospitals can be accessed by any user with no need for a password, a leaked video shown to the Post and verified by multiple hospital sources has revealed. Software developer Wong Ho-wa warned the program used in public accident and emergency (A&E) wards…
Category: Health Data
Legislation Seeks to Regulate Privacy and Security of Wearables and Genetic Testing Kits
Lindsey Tonsager, Anna D. Kraus and Jayne Ponder of Covington & Burling write: Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the Protecting Personal Health Data Act (S. 1842), which would provide new privacy and security rules from the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) for technologies that collect personal health…
Dominion National investigates and notifies after discovering unauthorized access to servers that began as early as 2010
ARLINGTON, Va., June 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Dominion National, an insurer and administrator of dental and vision benefits, announced that it is addressing a data security incident involving some personal information that Dominion National maintains in connection with the services it provides. On April 24, 2019, through Dominion National’s investigation of an internal alert and…
IT error deletes Creighton pharmacy patient records, including prescription, insurance info
Julie Anderson reports: An IT error resulted in the deletion of patient records Tuesday from the Creighton University Campus Pharmacy at 2412 Cuming St. The lost data includes prescription and refill history and insurance information for all customers. A count of customers wasn’t immediately available, but the pharmacy filled 50,000 prescriptions in 2017. The incident…
Now THIS is painful: PainMD tells bankruptcy court it lost access to its own patients’ records
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a breach report quite like this one, so grab your favorite beverage and read what Brett Kelman reports on a company that ran into trouble with regulators and then filed for bankruptcy…. and in the process, managed to lose access to all their patients’ stored records because the…
AU: Specsavers says Qld customers’ private medical information may have been compromised
Sarah Jane Bell and Ross Kay report that an undisclosed numbers of Specsavers customers have had their personal and medical information stolen: “Contents may include your name, date of birth, address, phone number, email address, clinical records of your optometry tests, and Medicare details,” the email read. How the information was compromised is still being…