Matt Lee reports: A GP surgery has admitted to a data breach after “confidential” information was blown into the local area whilst being obtained by waste collectors. Mount Chambers Surgery in Braintree says they have reported themselves to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) over the breach. The GP surgery, on Coggeshall Road in Braintree, looks…
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Break-in poses security threat to Multnomah County Health Department patients
Lisa Moreno reports: The Multnomah County Health Department began notifying over 2,000 patients Friday that a month-old security breach may have put their personal information at risk. Someone broke into the Gladys McCoy Health Department headquarters in Old Town on the night of Feb. 17 and the county notified police on Feb. 21 after discovering the burglary,…
Piles of confidential ANZ bank documents found ‘floating down the street’ after they were carelessly dumped in a skip bin on a busy street
Brett Lackey reports: Piles of confidential documents containing the personal details of ANZ customers have been found thrown in a skip bin on a busy street by someone walking by. Scott Collins, 26, was walking near Armadale Central Shopping Centre, in Perth’s south-east, when he noticed the papers overflowing from the bins which were being used…
Crypto giant Binance moved $400 million from U.S. partner to firm managed by CEO Zhao
Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson report: Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had secret access to a bank account belonging to its purportedly independent U.S. partner and transferred large sums of money from the account to a trading firm managed by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, banking records and company messages show. Over the first three months of…
Ca: Doctor’s records improperly disposed
Patient records from a newly closed medical practice were not properly disposed of the privacy commissioner has ruled. Dr. Lalita Malhotra, who retired earlier this year, failed to have all records shredded by a company that deals in secure shredding and some ended up whole in a recycling facility. “Dr. Malhotra states that she accepts…
Nurse removed confidential patient files from three nursing homes in Cork and Kerry
Sean McCarthaigh reports: A registered nurse had admitted being guilty of professional misconduct over the unauthorised taking of a large number of confidential patient records and medical files from three nursing homes where she worked in Kerry and Cork. The nurse, Rasa Leliene, appeared before a fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of…