It never rains, but it pours? Now there’s a second press release from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has resulted in one charge being laid against an individual under the Health Information Act (HIA). The OIPC conducted an investigation following a report…
Category: Health Data
Tiger impersonator’s ex ‘stole medical records to fake pregnancy’
Rebecca Rosenberg reports: First, Minochy Delanois, 29, pulled her Tiger Woods-impersonator boyfriend through the rough — telling cops he’d harassed her and had even threatened to send nude pics of her to her bosses at NYU Langone Medical Center after she dumped him. But now, a little more than a year later, the charges against…
Ca: Charges laid under the Health Information Act (updated)
I just caught up with this April 16th press statement from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has resulted in 14 charges being laid against an individual under the Health Information Act (HIA). The OIPC conducted an investigation following a report from Alberta…
IN: St. Vincent Medical Group notifies patients after successful phishing attempt compromises PHI
St. Vincent Medical Group in Indiana, a member of Ascension Health, has provided a substitute notice following an e-mail phishing incident. According to their notice, a copy of which is posted on their web site, on December 3, 2014, they learned that an employee’s user name and password had been compromised as a result of e-mail phishing….
No evidence that any data removed from system: Premera
On April 18, DataBreaches.net addressed a question raised by some as to whether the Premera breach had resulted in any tax refund fraud or other types of fraud. At the time of posting, Premera had not responded to the inquiries sent to them. Today, DataBreaches.net received the following answers: 1. Does Premera now have any evidence…
VA report for March, 2015
From their statistics: Intrusion Attempts (Blocked): 358,163,688 Malware (Blocked/Contained): 1,190,896,611 Suspicious/Malicious Emails (Blocked): 81,343,076 Outgoing Unencrypted Emails: 1,136 Associated Privacy/Security Events 18,589 Total Emails Blocked Lost and Stolen Device Incidents: 50 Lost PIV Cards: 154 Mishandled Incidents: 105 Mis-mailed Incidents: 165 Paper Mis-mailings, 7 Pharmacy-item Mis-mailings out of 7,465,613 Total Mailings In terms of specific incidents reported, a cooler containing lab specimens…