Josh Taylor reports: After close to five years of work, the Australian government will introduce mandatory data breach notification legislation into parliament, but the laws would be unlikely to take effect until sometime next year if they make it through parliament before the September 14 federal election. Read more on ZDNet.
Ca: BCCA denies access to patient information to further class proceeding
All About Information writes: Yesterday, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia vacated an order that required non-party physicians to provide a class action plaintiff with the contact information of patients who were potential class members. It rendered a principled judgement on physician-patient confidentiality Read more about the decision in Logan v. Hong on All…
Ca: Hospital apologizes for data breach
Karen McKinley reports: Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has confirmed a privacy breach involving diagnostic images, but are providing few details as to who was involved. Hospital CEO Andree Robichaud and chief of staff Dr. Gordon Porter said Monday that the MRI scans of about 500 people were shared with a physician outside the…
Nursing assistant Portia Charlton accused of stealing IDs from residents at nursing home, filing false tax returns
Eric Glasser of WTSP in Florida reports: A traffic stop in Bartow has landed a 23-year-old nursing aide in jail for ID theft. Polk County deputies had been looking for Portia Charlton when she was pulled over Friday. Jail records show she is charged with 13 counts of stealing identification information from 13 people at…
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Hacked by @TeamBerserk
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has become a victim to hackers who have managed to breach its server and leak data. The hackers who use the handle @TeamBerserk have announced the leak from the HITRUST main alliance server and website (https://www.hitrustalliance.net) in the early hours of the 27th May, 2013. HITRUST is focused on…
Isuzu France Hacked, Data Leaked by @pentester_1996
A hacker using the handle Human Mind Crack3r or @pentester_1996 has posted a leak of data from yet another automotive Giant. This time the hackers have set sights on Isuzu France (https://www.isuzu.fr/), one of the worlds biggest and well known automotive company’s which has operated since the early 1900’s and is a Japanese car giant that is…