Yet again a web based game community has become the victim of hackers who have breached its system and leaked 38,000 login credentials. The community and website is Pixel Federation (https://www.pixelfederation.com/) which was founded in 2007 and is based in Slovakia. The site is very popular amongst gamers in Europe who play mobile and web…
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Update: Arrest in Sachem schools data breach (update1)
There has been another development in a data breach involving the Sachem Central School District on Long Island (previous coverage here and here). As I commented previously, it sounded to me like they suspected an insider breach but it wasn’t clear if it was an employee or a student hacker they suspected. Well, now we…
UCSF notifying 8,294 gastroenterology patients whose PII and PHI were on laptop stolen from doctor's car
Statement from UCSF: UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to the theft of a physician’s personal laptop computer that contained personal and health information. While the physician believed the laptop was encrypted, this could not be confirmed. As a result, the individuals involved are being notified. The security of protected health information at UCSF…
The Ramifications of a Security Breach
Another survey. Scott Koller writes: From hackers to stolen laptops, security breaches have been on the rise. While most businesses are aware of the dangers associated with potential security breaches, few truly understand the full ramifications. Calculating the time and money spent on investigations and notifications is fairly straight forward but measuring the damage to…
Update: QxMD fixes privacy problem in Calculate
On October 30, PHIprivacy.net linked to an article on PCMag that described a review of an app, Calculate, by QxMD. The reviewer, Appthority, had found that “the registration and setup sends the doctor information, such as name, e-mail, and location over the network in plaintext,” despite the app’s assurance that all information was encrypted. At the time,…
So the police have a warrant…. does that compel the physician to help execute it?
Decades ago, while teaching emergency medical techniques to police and fire department personnel, a volunteer ambulance worker asked us what he should have done when a police officer on the scene ordered him to do something that he felt was wrong from an emergency medical standpoint. “He threatened to arrest me if I didn’t comply,…