The number of healthcare facilities that reported a breach in security that requires notification increased 6 percent from 13 percent in 2008 to 19 percent in 2010, according to the 2010 HIMSS Analytics report on the security of patient data, commissioned by Kroll Fraud Solutions. “The positive impact…is that there is a growing level of…
No Child Left Inside Site Shut Down; Investigation Pending
Amanda Falcone reports from Connecticut: The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered its contractor to shut down nochildleftinside.org because someone hacked into the web site. The web site is associated with the state’s No Child Left Inside initiative, which was established to encourage families to enjoy the outdoors, and it is a place where…
Atlanta investigates security breach
Eric Stirgus reports: Atlanta officials said Friday they are investigating how personal information of about 1,000 current and former city Fire Rescue employees found its way to the Internet. The information was used on a personal laptop and then accessed by another computer, city officials said in a news release. It included the names, addresses,…
Last State Without a Breach Notice Law? Not Mississippi
Tanya Forsheit reports: Yesterday, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour approved Mississippi’s first breach notification law, House Bill 583, leaving only four states without a notification law (Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico, and South Dakota). Read more on InformationLawGroup. The law goes into effect July 1, 2011.
Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail
A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…
VIHA files sent to wrong address
Rob Shaw reports: The Vancouver Island Health Authority has admitted it accidentally mailed the confidential health records of 13 clients to the wrong address, and didn’t know the files were missing until people started to complain. The records, which contained mental and physical evaluations of clients, were supposed to go into the inter-office mail system…