As a follow-up to a serious data breach in Japan: Tokyo police have seized personal information and Internet access records of subscribers from two Internet service providers (ISPs), suspecting that police documents on international terrorism possibly leaked online via their systems, officials said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seized the information on suspicion of obstruction…
WV: Agency seeks input on health information security, privacy
Taylor Kuykendall reports: The West Virginia agency charged with creating a digital exchange of health information is seeking public comment on new security and privacy policies before entering its 2011 pilot of the program.The West Virginia Health Information Network is the result of a public and private partnership created in 2006 to enable medical professionals…
Private health info faxed dozens of times
Tighter rules for faxing medical documents are needed after a privacy breach last year, Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says. Information and privacy commissioner Gary Dickson said Monday that after a Saskatoon medical clinic changed its fax number, another business in town got its old number — and received 60 faxes containing private health information. Read more…
(Update) FL: Woman sentenced for stealing identity to get bigger breast implants
Jon Burstein of the Sun-Sentinel brings us up-to-date on a case of medical identity theft covered previously on this site. A Tamarac woman who broke the law to get bigger breast implants was sentenced Monday morning to two and a half years in federal prison. Shatarka Nuby, 29, pleaded guilty in August to aggravated identity theft and a…
Confidential patient details posted online by NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
Confidential patient information has been inadvertently posted on a website in an NHS blunder. Patients’ names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and treatment and procedures were inadvertently included in an electronic spreadsheet file which formed part of a response to a Freedom of Information request sent out in May last year. The information was later…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010 which inadvertently allowed those persons…