Well, I tried to warn Sutherland Healthcare Solutions that they shouldn’t let their breach dribble out and stay in the news cycle, but they declined to be more transparent. So now we have yet more news about their recent breach that affected more than 168,000 patients of Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health as well as an…
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CA: Transient sentenced for theft of computers from AHMC Healthcare
Brian Day reports that the transient who stole two laptops from AHMC Healthcare containing 729,000 patients’ information has been sentenced: Christopher Lee Brown, 37, received a sentence of 4 years and 8 months from Judge Jared Moses in the Alhambra branch of Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s officials said in…
EU Healthcare Coalition steps up pressure on data protection
Peter Mansell reports: The multi-stakeholder Healthcare Coalition on Data Protection has stepped up pressure on lawmakers in the EU to preserve, re-instate or clarify research-friendly provisions in the European Commission’s proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation. Among the changes sought by the Coalition, which was set up to “facilitate health-data processing for health purposes,…
Redspin Reports on the 'State of Healthcare IT Security'
Press release. CARPINTERIA, Calif., Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Redspin, Inc., a leading provider of penetration testing and IT security assessments, today released its annual Breach Report 2013 – Protected Health Information. In the report, Redspin provides in-depth analysis of the complete history of PHI data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), identifies current trends,…
Notice to Beebe Healthcare Patients Regarding Possible Disclosure of Personal Information (updated)
The following notice was posted yesterday on Beebe’s web site, linked from their home page: Beebe Healthcare (“Beebe”) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ personal information and takes this obligation seriously. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. On December 27, 2013, Beebe learned that…
Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes
Darlene Storm reports: When it comes to the atrocious state of HealthCare.gov security, white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, “I don’t understand how we’re still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. It is; there’s no question about that.” He added,…