Kathianne Boniello reports that a parent and her child are suing the New York City Department of Education after the child’s high school dumped hundreds of unshredded confidential student records onto the street last year. The incident was covered on this site here. The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard…
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Appeals CDPH Fine (updated)
For Release: September 09, 2010 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is appealing a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) penalty. The CDPH on April 23, 2010, after the self-reporting of a security incident by Packard Children’s, alerted the hospital that a fine of $250,000 was being levied as a result…
Ca: Doctors should tell police when they suspect a crime, drug report recommends
And yet another really bad idea…. tin star badges for doctors. It’s an intrusion on doctor-patient confidentiality and as I’ve written in the past, I’m firmly opposed to it. That a physicians’ group is the one proposing it is particularly unsettling. Allison Jones reports: Ontario’s doctors should be legally required to tell police when they…
College Data Breaches Underscore Higher Ed Security Challenges
Brian Prince reports: Reports surfaced this week that the University of Virginia fell victim to a cyber-attack that stole nearly $1 million. Unfortunately for administrators at colleges and universities, their institutions are just as vulnerable to data breach woes as enterprises. According to reports, attackers used malware to steal online banking credentials for accounts belonging…
FL: Laptop theft results in data breach for P.K. Yonge employees, students
From the University of Florida: The personal information of more than 8,300 current and former students and employees of P.K. Yonge Development Research School was on a laptop computer stolen last month. P.K. Yonge is a kindergarten-through-grade-12 laboratory school affiliated with University of Florida’s College of Education. The computer files contained employee payroll, employee parking…
NV: School District updates its records disposal procedure
Kudos to Tom Considine of “Who Complys” for increasing local awareness of the need for proper disposal of the student and employee records. Stephanie Carroll reports: The Churchill County School District announced Thursday the purchase of an industrial shredder to update their student record disposal procedures after accusations of illegal disposal. “I think our procedure…