Bill Siwicki reports: Longtime healthcare and technology veteran William Yasnoff, MD, has created a personal grid tactic for tuning relational databases to make it harder for hackers to steal large sets of medical records. And Yasnoff, a managing partner at NHII Advisors, said that hospital CIOs and CISOs or technology vendors can use the personal…
Category: Health Data
Confidential Info of 388 HIV Patients Feared Leaked in China
Trust of India reports: Personal information of at least 388 Chinese HIV patients has been allegedly leaked in a fraud in which individuals had called them up posing as governmental officials, state-run media reported on Tuesday. “A total of 388 persons have received scam calls in 31 provinces,” Bai Hua, the head of Baihualin National…
Technology firm hack compromised clients’ EHR records: The Dark Overlord
On July 12, the hacker known as “The Dark Overlord” (TDO) offered the source code, software signing keys, and customer license database for a firm that develops and markets software that among other things, implements the HL7 standards. The entity was not named in the listing on TheRealDeal Market. As I reported on July 12, I was…
Ca: Dr. Fernando Rojas ‘terminated’ for privacy breach
More than two years after a disturbing privacy breach was first disclosed, Dr. Fernando Rojas has – FINALLY – been fired by Vitalité Health Authority for snooping in over 140 patients’ files over a two-year period. Read more on CBC. And yes, if it takes you two years to detect snooping and then another two years to…
Alabama website breach revealed personal data of some state retirees
Mike Cason reports: A Mobile woman who was helping her parents with their state health insurance coverage saw names, dependent’s names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of other insurance program members on the system’s website. Amanda Murdick said when she opened a portal for members on the website of the Public Education Employees’…
New HHS guidance on Ransomware and HIPAA
I hate it when I tweet something but forget to post it. In today’s installment of “Smacking Myself in the Forehead,” I remember to tell readers that HHS has issued a new guidance on ransomware and HIPAA. A recent U.S. Government interagency report indicates that, on average, there have been 4,000 daily ransomware attacks since…