by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, July 24, 2014, 11:30 a.m. This story was co-published with NPR’s “Shots” blog. In the name of patient privacy, a security guard at a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, threatened a mother with jail for trying to take a photograph of her own son. In the name of patient privacy , a…
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FTC Commissioner calls for more data security in health apps, devices
At a Tech in Policy event sponsored by Washington, D.C. newspaper The Hill, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill made it clear that the FTC is aware of recent concerns about health app data privacy and security and is looking into new ways to police the industry. Read more on MobiHealthNews.
Specialized Eye Care notifies patients after unscrupulous employee copied and misused payment information
Here’s one that likely won’t show up on HHS’s public breach tool because of the numbers involved, but it’s an insider breach. Specialized Eye Care in Baltimore discovered that one of its employees stole the checking account information (name, address, routing and account number) of approximately 28 patients and the credit card information of approximately…
Indexeus exposes malicious hackers
The search engine indexes those websites which are frequented by the hackers. Indexeus users can query millions of records from some of the larger data breaches, including Adobe and Yahoo. The results list information including email addresses, usernames, passwords, Internet address, physical address, birthdays and other information associated with the accounts. The site said that…
MobilexUSA Notifies Affected Patients of Possible Privacy Breach
MobilexUSA today formally notified affected Indiana patients of a possible breach of protected health information. As a precautionary measure, the company has retained on behalf of affected patients the services of Kroll Inc., a global leader in risk mitigation and response with extensive experience helping people who have sustained an unintentional exposure of confidential data….
Women & Infants Hospital to Pay $150,000 to Settle Data Breach Allegations Involving Massachusetts Patients
There’s a follow-up to a breach disclosed in November 2012: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (WIH) has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to protect the personal information and protected health information of more than 12,000 patients in Massachusetts, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. The consent judgment, approved…