The following press release was issued Nov. 22 and refers to a VA incident originally discussed in a previous blog entry. Last month, the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center discovered a handwritten log book with 1,950 patients’ names and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers was missing from a respiratory laboratory. After an extensive…
(Update) ALDI breach affected 17,000 New York residents
Back in October, I noted that the ALDI breach had affected 8,000 Maryland residents. New York State’s breach logs for October, posted online, indicates that ALDI had reported on October 1 that 17,000 NYS residents were affected. Given that the breach affected customers in 11 states and there are 25,000 affected in just two of…
Ie: Protecting People’s Private Health Information: HIQA Guidelines Published
This press release from Ireland’s Health Information and Quality Authority is of note: A new guide on how to protect people’s privacy within healthcare services has been published by the Health Information and Quality Authority. Professor Jane Grimson, Director of Health Information at HIQA said: “With so much information being collected, used and shared in…
Lessons from the Most Interesting Data Breaches of 2010
Noa Bar-Yosef writes: As 2010 closes, we are given a chance to reflect on the past year of breaches. But something interesting has occurred which will surprise many: there has been a 93.7% drop in the volume of data stolen from 2009 to 2010. An analysis from the Privacy Clearinghouse, a public database which records…
(follow-up) Man admits tax scam using stolen patient data
Giovanna Fabiano reports the latest developments in a fraud scheme that victimized some of the most fragile among us: A(n Englewood) city man pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a scheme to file false tax returns, using information stolen from adult and pediatric cancer patients, among other victims. Jason Eaton, 28, told U.S. District Court…
Records of 8,300 former University of Arizona students are missing
Becky Pallack of the Arizona Daily Star reports: A missing hard drive prompted University of Arizona officials to notify 8,300 former students that their identities could be at risk. The external hard drive went missing from a secure records room in Old Main in October or earlier, and it could have been lost when the…