Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
Eighth Circuit asks for additional briefing in Target data breach class action settlement
Jessica Karmasek reports: A $10 million class action settlement stemming from a 2013 Target data breach — described as “unfair” by some — is again being looked at by a federal appeals court. On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Class Action Fairness filed additional briefing in the case, as requested by the U.S….
TriPoint Medical Center: Lake Health investigating missing obstetrics records
Tawana Roberts reports: The obstetrics department at Lake Health’s TriPoint Medical Center recently suffered a breach of about 750 OB patients’ protected health information. According to a Lake Health news release, no Social Security numbers or patient financial information was compromised. In June a log book maintained with limited but protected patient health information for…
Forgot to mention….
Have been traveling this week and next week, so updates to this site and pogowasright.org will be slim to non-existent, but I will get the sites caught up when I can. I will not be available via Jabber until after Aug. 26th and email will be spotty, too. This concept of “vacation” seems so alien…
Veterans group sues Pentagon after personal military records exposed
Vera Bergengruen reports: A veterans organization is suing the Pentagon for exposing private details about troops’ military service on “a truly massive scale” due to lax security on one of its websites. […] The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website, which according to the Pentagon receives more than 2.3 billion searches a year, is mean to…
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after TekLinks hacked
From their web site: On June 7, 2017, Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama (“SDG”) received notice from its cloud hosting and server management provider, TekLinks, Inc., of a security breach at its Birmingham facility that hosts our server. We immediately initiated an investigation and learned that external hackers had gained access to our server…