Express and Star in the UK reports: A memory stick with details of vulnerable children and their families was lost by a Sandwell Council worker on the way home, it emerged today. The incident sparked an investigation by the Information Commissioner and the council has found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act….
Pharmacies seek Privacy/Security Changes
Joseph Goedert reports on Health Data Management: The National Community Pharmacists Association is seeking changes in certain provisions of the HIPAA privacy and security rules that were expanded by the HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, the…
AU: Accused bank computer hacker faces court
Larine Statham reports: Police will spend the next four months building a case against an alleged computer hacker who planned to attack 74,000 computers worldwide from Adelaide. The accused, Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court for the first time on Friday. […] Police allege Harrison compromised more than 3,000 computers throughout the…
UK: Man arrested following attack on HMRC computers
Bill Goodwin reports: Detectives have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with a suspected £1m of fraud following an electronic attack on HM Revenue & Customs computer systems. Police and HMRC began a joint investigation in June after HMRC identified an electronic attack and alerted officers from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU). The investigation…
UK: Social worker leaves child’s confidential case notes on train
Scott Mullins reports: Confidential paperwork about a youngster being monitored by social services went missing after a bungling council worker left his notes on a train. Bromley Council says one of its officers was travelling by train between Orpington and Chislehurst for an appointment but alighted without picking up handwritten paperwork about the family he…
UK: Personal data stolen with Powys LHB laptop
More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009: A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen. Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB…