Vivian Ho reports: Two women were charged with identity theft for allegedly stealing mail and personal information from patients at an Alta Bates Summit Medical Center breast cancer center in Alameda County, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Wednesday. Salina Soriano, 37, of San Jose, and Regina Kennedy, 36, a transient, are accused of using the…
A follow-up on the case of the dentist convicted of improperly accessing prescription monitoring database: the dentist responds
On October 16, PHIprivacy.net published a post concerning Dr. Fred S. Glick, a dentist in Ohio who pleaded guilty to misusing the state’s prescription monitoring database. In that post, I included statements from the patient whose data were accessed, but had not been able to reach Dr. Glick to get a statement from him. As…
Authorities investigating cybersecurity incidents targeting Obamacare website
The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware of “about…
Authorities investigating cybersecurity incidents targeting Obamacare website
The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware…
UAE Muslim Brotherhood trial: ‘Secret data stolen from flash drive’
Seen in a report by Abdulla Rasheed on a case in Abu Dhabi: The first witness, an officer at the National Security Department, said one of the accused stole some important secret information related to state security from his flash drive. He said he was also a member of the board of Hatta Sports Club…
Companies that lose sensitive information should be punished, say UK consumers
brossi writes: UK consumers have called for tougher punishments for companies that lose sensitive information. The vast majority of the 1,000 UK consumers surveyed in a OnePoll study for LogRhythm said not enough is being done to uniformly penalize organisations that suffer data loss. Furthermore, two-thirds of respondents said there should be legislation forcing organisations…