NHS patients must be able to object to their personal data being shared, despite the major benefits that can be had from making it more accessible, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. His comments came in response to Dame Fiona Caldicott’s information governance review, which found that health and social care organisations had become excessively…
Iris Scans Seen Shrinking $7 Billion Medical Data Breach: Health
Kristen Hallam reports: Iris scanners aren’t just for airport border-control agents and spy movies anymore. Clinics and hospitals around the world are acquiring technology that identifies people based on physical traits to improve patient safety and stamp out fraud. HCA Holdings Inc. (HCA) hospitals in London, as well as health-care providers across the U.S., are…
Report: Utah’s health data breach cost a costly mistake
Kirsten Stewart reports: Utah’s 2012 health data breach — a security slip that exposed the personal information of three-quarters of a million residents to hackers — was a costly mistake. The state has spent about $9 million on security audits, upgrades and credit monitoring for victims — and that’s just the beginning. An estimated 122,000…
NTT DoCoMo Releases Notice its been Breached, Apologizes for the credentials leaked
Updated: Translation put together of the press release, credits to YEP A few days ago i did a report on a leak of data that has come from Japanese mobile phone giant DoCoMo that contains credential leak. Over the past few days this site alone has had tens of thousands of hits in relation to…
Laptop with Orthopedic Physician Associates' patient data stolen from car
Seen on NWSource, this substitute notice: NOTICE OF SECURITY BREACH ORTHOPEDIC PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES On April, 1, 2013, a laptop and ten patient files were stolen during a car break-in. The patient files were subsequently recovered. However, information regarding some patients of Orthopedic Physician Associates, a division of Proliance Surgeons, may have been compromised by this…
Official LG Mexico Hacked & Left Defaced
The Official LG Mexico website (https://www.lg.com.mx) has been breached and left with an additional page. The hack comes from @JokerCracker > #LG #Hacked by @jokercracker lg.com.mx/jc.html #RT !! — JokerCracker (@JokerCracker) April 27, 2013 The defacement is not an main index page and contains now real message but it is confirmed as the official mexico…