The Canadian Press reports: The New Brunswick Health Department is issuing new medicare numbers to some Carleton County patients after a recent break-in. A number of items including laptop computers were stolen from a medical clinic in Woodstock earlier this month. Read more on Metro.
California Legislature to take up data breach notification proposal
A new year, a new governor, the same old problem and perhaps the same solution. State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, has introduced a bill that he says will enhance consumer privacy protection by strengthening the notification requirements when databases of personal information are compromised. It’s the same bill that the Legislature passed last year…
Does a data breach hurt your brand?
Over on The New School of Information Security, Adam has a post that those of us who report on breaches or comment on the impact of breaches need to read, and I do encourage everyone to watch the video and read his entry. The bottom line of his post is that security breaches do not…
Vermont Attorney General Settles Security Breach Allegations Against Health Net
Attorney General William Sorrell filed a complaint and proposed settlement Friday with Health Net, Inc., and Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., regarding the health insurance company’s loss of an unencrypted portable hard drive containing protected health information. The complaint alleges violations of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, and…
Nurse Fired for Snooping in Tiger Woods' Records Files Defamation Suit
David Rothenberg was the charge nurse on duty at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee on Nov. 27, 2009, as paramedics wheeled in Tiger Woods. The golfer had just crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree and fire hydrant outside his Isleworth home. According to Rothenberg, within hours of Woods’s arrival, someone inside the hospital improperly…
Vermont Attorney General Settles Security Breach Allegations Against Health Net
Attorney General William Sorrell filed a complaint and proposed settlement Friday with Health Net, Inc., and Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., regarding the health insurance company’s loss of an unencrypted portable hard drive containing protected health information. The complaint alleges violations of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, and…