HealthITSecurity has reports on two HIPAA breaches reported to HHS. The first involved two employees of Baptist Health and Arkansas Health Group taking information on 6,500 patients with them to their new employer, Bray Family Health. The second incident involved a laptop missing from Johns Hopkins Medicine that contained health information for 571 cancer patients and 267 study participants. You can…
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Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison
Former Silk Road Task Force Agent Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison for Extortion, Money Laundering, and Obstruction Ex-DEA Agent Used Undercover Status to Pocket More than $700,000 in Bitcoin, Strike Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox SAN FRANCISCO –Carl M. Force was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for extortion, money laundering, and obstruction…
NZ: Students get porn message after high school’s email hacked
Stuff reports: Student emails have been suspended at Mt Albert Grammar after a security breach led to porn being sent to every student. An official message was sent to parents on Monday night apologising for any offence caused. Principal Dale Burden said they believed the culprit was most likely to be a student at the…
2 Manitoba nurses fined $1K each for breaching patient privacy
CBC News reports that two nurses have been fined for privacy violations that did not involve snooping: Two Manitoba nurses have been slapped with $1,000 fines each in two separate incidents in which the confidential medical information of a patient was shared — in violation of privacy rules. Read more on CBC News.
UK: Aviva hit by another insider data theft
The Drum reports: Aviva has admitted that a number of its employees stole the details of customers leading to some receiving up to ten calls per day in a bid to persuade them to make personal injury claims. It is the second time the insurance company has been hit by a data theft: a similar…
Veterans Administration September report includes four breaches, each affecting multiple veterans
Okay, so maybe I jinxed things when I reported how well the Veterans Administration had done in August in reducing the number of breaches involving personal information. By September, it was back to same old, same old. Here’s a brief rundown on the breaches involving personal information of multiple individuals reported by the VA to Congress for the month of…