Suzanne Barteau reports: A procedural mishap at New Mexico Tech’s Computer Center may have allowed the Social Security numbers of a few thousand people to be publicly available to anyone with a Tech computer account for nearly five years. William Colburn, Tech graduate, former Tech employee and Tech Community College instructor and current Tech student,…
Manx medical database a, thumbs up from many
According to recent findings most of the residents, 99% and above, to be precise in the Isle of Man agree with the idea of storage of medical information out on a central database, as per the government rules. Wednesday saw the last day for submission of details for creation of personal database at the Manx…
Medical Data Security: Spain Has Problems, Too
Over on AlertBoot, Sang Lee followed up on one of my posts to databreaches.net: After finding a tiny story about data breaches in Spain at databreaches.net, I decided to look into the situation since the article it referred to was quite unsatisfying. Turns out that the issue caused quite a stir in Spain, with over…
Why I think Microsoft’s claims that breaches are down are seriously confounded
Ever since yesterday morning when I read that Microsoft reported that breaches involving data loss are down, it’s been a puzzlement because all of the data I’ve seen this year suggest that the number of breach reports are up. I think I’ve figured out how they came to what I see as an erroneous statement….
UC Davis Medical Center notified 900 patients of data theft
Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis Medical Center officials said financial documents and other data containing information about 900 patients were stolen in an August burglary of a West Sacramento courier service. A med center spokesman, Charles Casey, said the affected patients were notified of the incident, and “the risk of identity…
UC Davis Medical Center notified 900 patients of data theft
Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports: UC Davis Medical Center officials said financial documents and other data containing information about 900 patients were stolen in an August burglary of a West Sacramento courier service. A med center spokesman, Charles Casey, said the affected patients were notified of the incident, and “the risk of…