Sometimes it’s hard to wrap my head around the fact the hospital employees engage in egregious privacy and confidentiality violations. Christine Stuart of Courthouse News reports on a lawsuit against Saint Raphael Healthcare System . The lawsuit alleges that in June, 2011, a Hospital of St. Raphael employee used his cellphone to take a picture…
University of North Carolina servers hacked; 3,500 employees’ data accessed
It seems that the University of North Carolina has had yet another data breach. And although the breach was discovered in May, it took about 7 months for those affected to be notified. Jane Stancill reports: Some 3,500 people had their personal information exposed when hackers hit two servers of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer…
It's 10 pm. Do you know where your patients' data are?
Financial disputes may underlie some vendors retaining patient or client data – as in the Kaiser Permanente/Surefile Filing Systems case I’ve blogged about on this site or the Irvine Scientific breach I described on DataBreaches.net. But there are other possible motivations for not relinquishing or taking data as well. Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune…
What percent of patients notified of a privacy breach actually change providers?
Infographics are getting as overused as PowerPoint, but occasionally I see one that catches my eye with an interesting finding. Case in point: this infographic with the results of a U.S. patient survey conducted in 2011 by FairWarning (open in new window and click to enlarge). My comments are after the infographic. Some of the…
20,000 Credentials Leaked from Association of Irish Festival Events
A hacker who was recently using the handle @DarkWebGoons has announced a leak of credentials from The Association of Irish Festival Events website (www.aoifeonline.com) after it was breached. The leak was announced on twitter and posted to the DarkWebGoons website in the format of a txt file. > aoifeonline.net #Leaked #100% By #DWG [20k credentials]- darkwebgoons.net/data/associati……
Jefferson County Sheriff Taken offline
Over the past weeks there has been an on going operation in Ohio that has got the attention of police finally. But the attention it has got is the wrong type and now the police, well a single sheriff has taken it upon himself to "hunt down" anonymous and KnightSec. As a result of this some hacktivist got together and…