Leonie Woods reports: The privacy and financial records of millions of shareholders who use Computershare’s global share registry system were placed at risk this year when a Boston employee quit the company, allegedly taking with her thousands of pages of highly sensitive and confidential documents. [See UPDATE below]. The employee resigned in September last year…
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Personal Genomics And Privacy
Gunnar De Winter writes: The advances in genetics and genomics have given rise to a flourishing personal genomics industry. All you need is a credit card and you can order a DNA kit on the internet. Once it arrives, all you have to do is rub a swab over your cheeck and send it back. A…
Pointer: A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches
Theodore J. Kobus III has a nice little A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches on Data Privacy Monitor.
Got Pwned? PwnedList.com Knows
Paul Roberts writes: With more and more victims of identity theft minted every day, figuring out if you’re one of the unlucky masses with a leaked email password is yeoman’s work. Now one security researcher is trying to make it easy with PwnedList.com, a Web site that collects leaked and stolen data, then tells Internet users…
PayPal executives’ contact information posted on Pastebin
In what looks to be the first of a number of “name and shame” postings, an individual or individuals posting as “PAYFAIL” have uploaded some personal information on dozens of former and current PayPal executives. In the press release, PayFail writes: In the wake of major corporations trying to silence the voices of those who dare…
IE: HIQA releases new guide for protecting patient records
Of note to healthcare professionals in Ireland: the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has released a new guide on protecting highly sensitive health records. The guide and self assessment tool are available to download from www.hiqa.ie or from Facebook or Twitter by searching ‘HIQA’. Source: TheJournal.ie