Rather than pussyfoot around the issue, the provincial government should address the concerns raised by Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson in the wake of arbitrators reinstating workers in two health regions who’d been fired for breaching the privacy of patient records. In both cases, the employees worked with medical records, were specifically trained on…
New HHS/OCR site provides additional details
It seems that in some cases, more details about breaches are being provided on HHS’s breach list in the way of summaries. To update some previously reported breaches (links are to prior PHIprivacy.net coverage of the breaches): Carle Clinic Association: Protected health information was released from the covered entity when an imposter, posing as representatives…
List of 1,300 Alleged Illegal Immigrants Released in Utah
Andrew Limbong writes: When discussing immigration and citizenship status in the United States, it’s easy to descend into hyperbole and start invoking metaphors to Hitler, McCarthyism, or some other horrible moment in world history. But a leaked list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants that is rife with information ranging from Social Security numbers, addresses, workplaces…
Oregon State U. notifies 34,000 of computer virus
Clearly Oregon State University does not pay enough attention to security bloggers who have derided such trite phrases as “in an abundance of caution.” Their press release from today: Oregon State University is notifying 34,000 current and former employees that a computer containing some of their personal information was recently infected by a virus, even…
Senators re-introduce bill to improve security, require notification of breaches
The press release issued by the Senators: Today Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) joined Senator Bob Bennett, (R-Utah) to re-introduce legislation that helps protect consumers and businesses from identity theft and account fraud. “It seems nearly every other day there is a report of consumers’ highly sensitive personal information being compromised by a store, a school,…
(update) Conn. AG wants teachers board to explain lost data
The Associated Press reports: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the state Teachers’ Retirement Board owes its members identity theft protection and an explanation after waiting six months to inform them of a lost flash drive containing retirement data. Blumenthal said Wednesday he is urging the board to give more than 58,000 members identity theft…