Ryan Luby reports: While battling a serious illness, no one wants to worry about their medical records ending up in the wrong hands or in the wrong place. Yet, while acting on a tip, 4 Investigates learned there were concerns raised about patient privacy at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, or UNMCC. 4…
IE: Credit Union investigator fined €5k over data breach
Tom Tuite provides the update on a previously reported breach: A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardai and the ESB. Judge John O’Neill heard that credit unions hired the services of former garda Michael J Gaynor, now trading as…
Data Security Auditor May be Drawn Into Data Breach Class Action for Failing to Identify Vulnerabilities
DrinkerBiddle reports a development in Storm v. Paytime, Inc., No. 14-cv-01138-JEJ (M.D. Pa.): In August, Paytime, Inc., a payroll services company, moved to dismiss a putative class action filed in the wake of a data breach in which the personal and financial information of more than 230,000 people was compromised. Paytime argued that the plaintiffs lack standing, have failed to plead…
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Dean Beeby reports: Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians — many of them rich and famous — was sent to CBC News by Canada’s tax agency in an apparent major privacy breach. The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted,…
Article: Methylation array data can simultaneously identify individuals and convey protected health information: an unrecognized ethical concern
Robert A Philibert, Nicolas Terry, Cheryl Erwin, Winter J Philibert, Steven RH Beach, and Gene H Brody have an article in Clinical Epigenetics 2014, 6:28 that is worth noting because of concerns about identification of patients and/or re-identification. Here’s the abstract: Genome-wide methylation arrays are increasingly used tools in studies of complex medical disorders. Because of their…
Ca: Rouge Valley Hospital employee involved in privacy breach charged by Securities Commission
OK, this is a bit different. There’s an update to a breach at Rouge Valley Hospital that was previously noted on this blog and that has already resulted in a lawsuit. The Canadian Press reports: A former clerk at the Rouge Valley hospital group in southern Ontario has been charged following an investigation into the…