Thomas Mennecke writes: There appears to have been a serious data security breach on ACS:Law’s website today, as the website’s root directory was temporarily exposed for several hours. One of the files may have been a backup file of the website, which possibly included the firm’s email correspondence of solicitor Andrew Crossley. ACS:Law’s website was…
Lawsuit filed over AnMed's required flu shot policy
Mike Ellis reports: Bertha Hunter has not had a flu shot in her life and she doesn’t intend to get one just because AnMed Health is requiring all its employees to get one. Hunter, an AnMed Health employee, is suing the Anderson healthcare company on grounds that the hospital’s mandatory shots are a violation of…
NZ: Hundreds of patient records stolen
Kate Newton reports: Hundreds of patients’ medical records were stolen from Wellington Hospital by an employee and left languishing in a Porirua house for six years. Six boxes containing about 800 documents, mainly patients’ referrals and test results, were taken from the hospital by medical records clerk Taofiga “Junior” Sa. The patients whose files were…
UK: Mum’s baby DNA shock
A shocked mum said she should have been told her baby’s DNA will be kept on a database for life. Ana Humberstone, 36, claims she was unaware the DNA of her two-year-old daughter Jasmine would be stored with thousands of other babies from Wakefield on NHS records in Leeds. […] Parents and civil liberties groups…
Patient Consent: Much To Be Done
Howard Anderson writes: Detailed patient consent recommendations that a privacy and security “tiger team” recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges. In an interview (complete transcript below), attorney Deven McGraw says the recommendations, which federal regulators are now considering for…
WI: Church gets $84,000 back in stolen funds
Annysa Johnson reports: Federal authorities continue to investigate a “cyber theft” of $121,000 from a prominent Catholic church in Brookfield that has all the markings of a sophisticated Internet crime operation. St. John Vianney learned from its commercial banker last month that blocks of money had been withdrawn from one of its accounts through a…