Liv Osby reports: An employee at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been terminated after hospital officials discovered that she had inappropriately accessed personal patient information. Hospital employees began reporting in July that their insurers had recorded unpaid balances and charges for a prescription cream, officials said in a statement. An investigation concluded on…
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Resource for Schools: Data Privacy Guide
The California County Superintendents Educational Services Association has produced a data privacy guide for districts containing a range of best practices, sample vendor contracts, and steps to take when a data breach occurs. Data Privacy Guide is a collaborative project between the California Education Technology Professionals Association (CETPA), the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) and…
Threat of Data-Privacy Litigation Fuels District Insurance Purchases
Malia Herman reports: .. It’s unclear how many districts have purchased cyberpolicies. Laubmeier said Aon covers several districts but declined to say exactly how many. “We are seeing a very large uptick in the number of school districts that have inquired about the possibility of cyberinsurance,” he said. Mr. Gambale also declined to say how many…
Privacy Policies Matter… Whether You Read Them Or Not
Mark McGreary writes: New innovations come hand in hand with new privacy issues. Privacy policies may seem like a last minute add-on to some app developers but they are actually an important aspect of an app. Data breaches are an imminent risk and a business’s first defense to potential problems is a privacy policy. Fordham…
Ca: Data breach turns into MLA laugh-fest
Les Leyne writes: Lovely to see how the latest data-privacy breach moved from a dramatic crisis to light entertainment in the space of a week. The news that the Education Ministry had misplaced a data drive packed with sensitive information about school kids was treated like an Amber Alert when the government ’fessed up to…
KY: North Oldham High School student data potentially compromised after employee falls for phishing attempt
Allison Ross reports: North Oldham High School is alerting 2,800 current and former students that a data breach earlier this month could have exposed their names, social security numbers and other personal information. On Sept. 10, an outside scammer breached a computer after a nutrition services staff member at the school “ended up at a website…