MaryAnn Vaughan reports: A Kilkenny Dáil Deputy says the HSE locally has seriously breached Data Protection. John McGuinness says it was brought to his attention that there are boxes of patient and HSE workers’ files stored in unlocked outhouses at the site of their auxiliary hospital on Wolfe Tone Street in Kilkenny. Read more on…
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IE: More than 100 breaches of HSE patient data in past year
Darragh McDonagh and Brian McDonald report: More than 100 data protection breaches involving sensitive personal information held by the Health Service Executive (HSE) occurred over the past year, internal documents indicate. Details of the incidents, which occurred between April 1st, 2014 and April 1st, 2015, have been released under the Freedom of Information Act. Read…
IE: Update to HSE laptop theft
There’s an update to a breach noted yesterday on this blog. Highland Radio now reports that there were 180 children whose data were on the stolen laptop HSE’s Speech and Language Therapy Service in Donegal. Even more noteworthy, however, they report that the laptop was “fully encrypted.” If that’s the case, I am puzzled that the Data…
IE: Parents warned of data protection breach after HSE laptop is stolen
Highland Radio reports: It’s emerged that a laptop containing children’s details has been stolen from the boot of a car of a staff member attached to the HSE’s Speech and Language Therapy Service in Donegal. Gardai are investigating the theft, which took place outside the county. This week, a number of parents and guardians whose…
IE: Man stole laptops from HSE offices in middle of night – court hears
Declan Brennan reports on the prosecution for a breach I don’t remember seeing before: A man stole laptops with sensitive information from HSE offices in the middle of the night after walking in through an open door in the building, a court has heard. Stephen Ennis (22) was caught “red handed” with three mobile phones,…
IE: Files stolen from HSE employee’s car
Under fire Health Service Executive (HSE) chiefs were staring at yet another embarrassing controversy last night after private records were stolen in Longford. The Leader has learned the private documents were stolen from a District Health Nurse’s car last Friday afternoon. The records were concealed inside a handbag which was stolen from a car in…