by Senator Howie C. Morales (D-Silver City) and Senate President Pro Tempore Mary Kay Papen (D-Las Cruces): …. If state law provides greater privacy protection than federal law, state law controls. New Mexico’s Children’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Act places limitations on the disclosure, without consent, of behavioral health information that could be…
Georgia Department of Driver Services public computers expose personal information
Ross McLaughlin reports: 11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action went undercover to expose how a state agency that you trust to protect your personal information is putting people at risk for identity theft. Your private information, available for anyone to see — tax returns, Social Security numbers, you name it. It may not have been intentional,…
Patients Worried About Compromised Records At AnMed
Oh my. Here’s an insider breach from earlier this year that I seem to have missed. WSPA had reported: Some patients of AnMed Health are worried their information is in the wrong hands. Hospital officials would not specify how many people received a letter which states someone accessed medical records without a legitimate reason. AnMed…
Western Union dismisses threat of data security breach at PrivatBank
Christopher J. Miller reports: A regional head of the U.S.-based financial services and communications company Western Union said he is not worried about recent security breaches at Ukraine’s largest bank which allowed a hacker to obtain sensitive data of Western Union customers, potentially putting them at risk for fraud. Ulugbek Umarov, Western Union country director…
Patient mistakenly receives another's medical records
HIPAA breaches happen, but what should an entity do when the recipient of accidentally disclosed PHI refuses to return the other patient’s record(s)? Here’s another case in Kansas.
Indonesians Framing Aussies, Aussies to Indonesia: We do not want War!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34nyxLFH5ks Recent news about NSA and Australian government spying on the people of Indonesia has sparked outrage from Indonesians online. As a result i have already reported on the hundreds of innocent websites that have been attacked, the failed attempt to take down ASIO.gov.au and DOD.gov.au but now it appears the Indonesian hackers and media…