CBC News reports: A former employee with Western Health was fined Thursday in a privacy breach at the hospital in Corner Brook. Donna Colbourne accessed more than 1,000 patient files at Western Memorial Regional Hospital while working there as an accounting clerk until 2012. Judge Kymil Howe, appearing by video conference from Stephenville, imposed a $5,000…
Weak mobile device security bodes big risk for hospitals
Judy Motti reports: Only slightly more than half of healthcare employees (59 percent) are using full-disk encryption or file-level encryption on mHealth computing devices used at work, according to a new Forrester research report, which concluded that medical enterprises must adopt a data-centric approach to endpoint security on all employee devices. Such a security strategy will…
AU: Hospital breached privacy rules by releasing woman's details to ex-husband
Louise Hall reports: A mother of two says a Sydney hospital released sensitive details about her health to her hostile ex-husband, who used it against her in his attempt to gain sole custody of their children. The woman could receive up to $40,000 in compensation after a tribunal found Royal Prince Alfred Hospital breached privacy…
Home Depot Malware Hints at Different Hackers Than Target’s
Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley report: Home Depot was hacked with a malicious software program that plunders store registers while disguising itself as antivirus software, according to two security researchers. The credit card-stealing program used in the attack on the Atlanta-based retailer is being dubbed FrameworkPOS, and differs significantly from the software used last year to…
Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It's All Over the Internet
If you read only one thing today, read this. Shannon Pettypiece and Jordan Robertson report: Dan Abate doesn’t have diabetes nor is he aware of any obvious link to the disease. Try telling that to data miners. The 42-year-old information technology worker’s name recently showed up in a database of millions of people with “diabetes…
Yandy breach impacted over 44,000 online customers
Quick update: The Yandy breach, disclosed previously on this blog, may have affected 44,724 customers, according to a letter from their attorneys to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.