An update to a breach affecting Roseway Hospital, reported previously on this blog. Eva Hoare reports: A Halifax law firm has started a class action against a provincial health authority after a worker accessed the private medical records of hundreds of South Shore patients. […] An investigation into the records breach, made public in mid-June,…
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Death by HIPAA
Jane Yakowitz writes: Vioxx, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug once prescribed for arthritis, was on the market for over five years before it waswithdrawn from the market in 2004. Though a group of small-scale studies had found a correlation between Vioxx and increased risk of heart attack, the FDA did not have convincing evidence until it completed…
Some Delta Dental records lost during shipping
Delta Dental of Illinois has notified hundreds of people about an incident that could result in the exposure of their personal information. A box containing paper claims was shipped by a subcontractor of Delta Dental of Illinois to the company by a delivery service. The box, which contained claims and X-rays, was lost during shipping….
AU: No answers from Qld Health
John Corlett reports: More than one week after a major security breach, Queensland Health still does not know how a number of sensitive medical documents were left lying in the gutter. Rockhampton Hospital began an investigation into the security breach early last week after The Morning Bulletin carried a story revealing that sensitive medical documents…
Updates to Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach report
As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…
Hospital Management Systems Breached, By @OfficialComrade .c0mrade
.c0mrade ( @officialcomrade ) has been very busy the past few weeks. The latest hack is on a hospital management system and .c0mrade has targeted two different hospitals after he was able to login to the system remotely with a very simple username and password. In the release is a few pictures and a message to the creators of this software…