Sarah Bowman reports: Three weeks after Beaufort County School District teachers traveled to West Africa, several school board members and parents question the way the district handled public information about Ebola concerns. […] Board of Education member JoAnn Orischak said balancing public knowledge and employee privacy is difficult. “The district would never be able to…
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CORRECTION AND APOLOGY
On August 19, PHIprivacy.net posted an excerpt from The NewsStar concerning a breach of patient information for over 6,000 patients at E. A. Conway Medical Center. Today, PHIprivacy.net learned that TheNewsStar‘s coverage was inaccurate in some important respects. That post has now been replaced with a correction and an apology to the professor of ethical…
Can an Employee Really Steal Your Data and Then SLAPP You for It?
Shawn Tuma writes: Can an Employee Really Can Steal Your Data and Then SLAPP You for It? Yes, in California it just happened! The fact that this happened in California should be of no comfort to Texas businesses, however, because the Texas Anti-SLAPP law comes from California and, therefore, California jurisprudence is considered persuasive authority…
Clarification: Professor says Google search, not hacking, yielded medical info
Adam Greenberg reports: Though unnamed in a breach notification and follow-up reports, a professor of ethical hacking at City College San Francisco (CCSF), Sam Bowne, has come forward on the internet to clarify that he did not demonstrate hacking a medical center’s server in a class, but rather came across sensitive information during a Google…
Huntington Bancshares Group Health Care Plan members latest victims of Staywell/Onsite Health Diagnostics breach
CORRECTION: Children’s Mercy Hospital was affected by the breach that occurred in March 2014, not the 2012 breach. Original story: It seems like I’m reporting a lot of breaches involving StayWell Health Management and their vendor, OnSite Health Diagnostics this year. It’s probably because they’ve disclosed two breaches that affected numerous StayWell clients. The latest entry is…
IL: Urology patients notified after laptop attached to testing equipment was stolen
One of the recent breaches added to HHS’s public breach tool involved a case where a laptop connected to equipment was stolen from the covered entity’s premises. Midwest Urological Group in Peoria, Illinois reported that 982 patients had information on a laptop that was stolen on or about May 30th. There does not appear to be…