A scary headline if you’re Dutch, I bet. DutchNews.nl reports: The American authorities may have access to information stored in the new Dutch digital patient record system because it is being built by a US firm, Nos television reports. The system is being developed for the Dutch government by CSC, an American company with operations in the…
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Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule
Yesterday, OCR released the guidance on de-identification of PHI: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-identification/hhs_deid_guidance.pdf Now I just need to find time to read it…
Follow-up on the Gulf Coast Health Care Services breach
Back on November 10, I noted that HHS’s breach tool had added an entry for Gulf Coast Health Care Services: Gulf Coast Health Care Services in Florida suffered a network compromise on August 17 that reportedly affected 13,000 patients. The incident was reported to HHS as “Theft, UnauthorizedAccess/Disclosure, Hacking/IT Incident”,Network Server. I commented at the…
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question
The three countries that have reported breaches that affected their entire population (or almost the entire population) are Belize, Israel, and Greece.
Today’s trivia question
Let’s see how long you’ve been reading DataBreaches.net. Three countries have experienced breaches involving their entire population or almost their entire population. Can you name them? I’ll post the answer tomorrow.
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist
Sounds like things got a bit testy between accused hacker Jeremy Hammond’s lawyer and the judge at his bail hearing. Adam Klasfeld has the report on Courthouse News.