HHS updated its breach tool yesterday. The following is an annotated list of new entries on their list. It is not clear to me why there are breach entries where the breaches occurred in 2011 or 2012. Did HHS delay in adding incidents to the breach tool or are entities first discovering and/or reporting the…
NZ hat trick: EQC reports its third breach this year
Rebecca Quilliam reports: The Earthquake Commission has admitted to another breach of privacy after information on up to 260 claimants was sent to the wrong customers. Its chief executive Ian Simpson has launched an inquiry into how the information ended up on a letter that was sent to some clients. One side of the letter…
NZ: Nurse suspended for privacy breach
Wilma McCorkindale reports: A former Dunedin enrolled nurse who illegally accessed details of a patient’s termination of pregnancy and then texted another person about it has been suspended from practising. Rayleen Jeanette Park has appeared before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal on charges under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003. In a tribunal decision…
OK, NSA, ‘fess up: did you hack Belgacom?
Has the NSA been hacking into Belgian telco Belgacom since 2011 – or has some other government? Who knows? Read deStandaard, Threatpost, and the Washington Post.
A privacy/confidentiality breach risks medical mistakes
Here’s a situation in which there’s clearly been a privacy breach, but the privacy issues may actually be the least of the patients’ problems. Heather Graf reports that a former patient at the Carol Milgard Breast Center has filed a complaint after discovering three other patients’ records were mixed in with her own, raising questions of…
Revised OECD Privacy Guidelines Focus On Accountability, Notification of Breaches
Rick Mitchell reports: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released updated privacy guidelines with an increased focus on implementation and enforcement and a new risk-management approach to accountability for companies and public organizations, practitioners told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 11. Posted on the OECD’s website Sept. 9, the updated guidelines replace the 33-year-old original…