FOI is our friend. Greg Christison reports on data from 14 Scottish NHS boards: A Sunday Express investigation has found that around 80 items containing potentially sensitive data, including laptops, memory sticks, dictaphones and smartphones, have disappeared since January 2012. Read more on Sunday Express, but don’t expect to see numbers of unencrypted records with…
Category: Health Data
NetDiligence 2013 report: "Cyber Liability & Data Breach Insurance Claims"
NetDiligence has released its 2013 report on “Cyber Liability & Data Breach Insurance Claims” based on actual claims submitted: This report summarizes our findings for a sampling of 145 data breach insurance claims, 140 of which involved the exposure of sensitive data in a variety of sectors, including government, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, professional services, retail and…
Commentary: It's time for California and HHS to do a serious smackdown on "jokes" that invade privacy (update 1)
It seems like only last month that I reported on a lawsuit stemming from a practical joke played on a patient/co-worker by a surgeon and hospital staff. Oh wait, it was just last month, and it involved Torrance Memorial Medical Center. No wonder I had a deja vu experience reading this report today by Barbara…
Children's Healthcare says resigning exec stole PHI on her way out the door
David Allison reports: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has fired and sued a top executive for allegedly taking the hospital’s proprietary information, including children’s patient health information, numbers assigned to health care providers by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the state license numbers for more than 500 health care providers. In a complaint filed Oct. 25…
Florida Department of Health of Orange County discloses insider breach for tax refund fraud affecting 2,300 patients
Why report just one insider breach/tax refund fraud scheme for the day when you can report two? Here’s a statement the Florida Department of Health in Orange County posted today on their site: The Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) is issuing a security breach notice to certain patients of its health centers…
Massive data breach a 'national security risk'
From The Local in Sweden: Three million Swedes may have had their medical journals available to prying eyes, after a large-scale IT failure affected patients in Stockholm and Gotland. The Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper, which made the discovery, reported on Wednesday that there were signs that intruders had tried to access medical journals. The medical…