A year after a computer hacker breached Virginia’s statewide prescription drug database, investigators still don’t know who did it. Computer functions at the state Department of Health Professions, which runs the program, were disabled for weeks as a result of the April 30, 2009, cyberattack. The hacker claimed to have stolen more than 35 million…
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Breaches recently reported to NYS
Last year, New York State began posting logs of breach reports they receive. Entities experiencing a breach are required to inform the state how many NYS residents were involved, but are not required to indicate the total number of individuals affected. Unfortunately, their logs do not indicate precisely whether the NYS residents affected are employees,…
Man indicted in probe of UMC hospital privacy leak
Marshall Allen reports on the latest development in a UMC breach discussed on this site in the past: A man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in an alleged conspiracy to pay a University Medical Center employee for private information about traffic accident victims that was used to drum up clients. The indictment…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
If memory serves, employees of the State Department who snooped into celebrity passports got probation. Here’s a case where celebrity snooping — of medical records — actually resulted in prison, even though the data were not otherwise misused or sold: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison for illegally snooping into the confidential private records of celebrities, high-profile patients and co-workers. 48 year old Huping Zhou pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles in January to four misdemeanor counts of violating federal privacy provisions….
Survey: Delayed Compliance with New Regulations Has Increased Data Breaches and Medical Identity Theft in U.S. Hospitals
Although some will tend to minimize survey results when the surveyor has a self-serving interest, the results of the recent Identity Force survey of over 200 hospital administrators provides unsurprising, yet troubling, data. From their press release about the survey: PROBLEMS ARE WORSENING DESPITE MAJOR REGULATORY EFFORTS 41.5% of hospitals have TEN OR MORE data…