Austin Manual Therapy Associates (AMTA) has two locations in Austin, Texas. They also have a very professional-looking web site and pictures of smiling and professional-looking physical therapy staff. What they don’t have at this time, though, is any statement on their web site indicating that their patient data was hacked. And yet according to a spokesperson…
UK: NHS data loss scandal deepens with further 162,000 files missing
Rajeev Syal and Denis Campbell report: The scandal over the biggest ever loss of NHS medical correspondence has deepened with the revelation that a further 162,000 documents went missing, in addition to the 702,000 pieces of paperwork already known to have gone astray. MPs said they were “dumbstruck” to learn that even more material relating…
Privacy breached for hundreds of Queen Elizabeth Hospital patients
Insider breaches in healthcare know no national boundaries. From The Guardian: Health P.E.I. says the personal health information of 353 patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown has been inappropriately viewed by a former hospital employee. Acting chief executive officer for Health P.E.I., Denise Lewis Fleming, confirmed the breach of patient records this morning….
Man who mistakenly called probation officer with victim’s personal info is sentenced
Here’s one for your thank-goodness-for-dumb-criminals file. Joe Marusak reports: A Charlotte identity-theft suspect who accidentally texted a victim’s personal information to his probation officer was sentenced to five years and six months in federal prison on Tuesday. Kendell Rashad Bowden, 26, pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft….
Laptop with “sensitive material” on homicides stolen from DA employee’s car
Joe Eskenazi reports: Car break-ins in San Francisco have reached epidemic proportions, and city employees aren’t immune. Now it’s the Office of the District Attorney’s turn. Thankfully, it wasn’t a gun stolen from a car this time. But the item lost to a burglar or burglars is tied to San Francisco homicides. An alert sent…
Data breach exposes millions of South Africans’ personal records
Andrew Fraser reports: A huge trove of data, containing the personal information of millions of South Africans, including property ownership, employment history, income and company directorships, has been discovered by information security researcher Troy Hunt. Hunt, the founder of HaveIbeenPwned.com, said the breach contains data of more than 30m unique South African ID numbers. The…