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2011 a bad year for Medical data breaches – Millions of patient data compromised
PRC Director Beth Givens gives an insight into Medical data breaches The San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has come up with a list of 2011′s six most significant data breaches. An overview...
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Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov’s data theft conviction overturned
Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov’s data theft conviction overturned Today’s new story is a classic case of data theft wherein an employee on his last working day stole code and transferred it...
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Canadian businesses vulnerable to data breaches: Security needs tightening
The cloud-computing stack: Cloud computing is the answer to data security It is a myth that only giant corporations become a victim of data breach as they deal in large amount of data. The reality is...
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NASA employee’s laptop stolen, sensitive data at stake
Kennedy Space Center experiences laptop theft Where and how was the laptop stolen? The laptop theft of NASA’s employee took place outside the home of the employee’s car where he had left his laptop....
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Former Intel engineer, Biswamohan Pani, pleads guilty to data theft charges
Ex-Intel employee charged with Data theft IT employees have been taking data theft and IT security policies lightly. They think they need not follow them and at times believe they can get away by...
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The Federal Trade Commission files complaint against Wyndham Hotels for data...
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts sued by FTC over data breach We did wonder, did not we, as to how come hotels were never in the news for data breaches? They store a large amount of customer data and it is...
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Hackers leak information stolen from over 100 sites
Hacker collective Team GhostShell has posted on Saturday on their Twitter account links to a massive leak that supposedly includes over one million of user record sets stolen from around 100 website...
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Must Read for IE Users
Microsoft is urging Windows users who browse the Web with Internet Explorer to use a free tool called EMET to block attacks against a newly-discovered and un-patched critical security hole in IE...
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Seton McCarthy Clinic: Laptop stolen
English: Seton Healthcare Family logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A laptop was stolen from a Southeast Austin medical clinic, it had thousands of patients’ personal information. Now the hospital is doing...
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Stolen laptop may lead to data breach
Stolen laptop may lead to data breach Private behavioral and mental health non-profit organization may suffer data breach after it found out that several laptops were stolen from its Noblesville...
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Phishing Scam and Data Breach
Wyoming Medical Center recently suffered data breach when it was hit by phishing scam. According to the reports, 3,184 individuals received the notification letter by the medical center which mentioned...
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Truck and Data Breach
A mail delivery truck which was having health information was stolen. This has resulted into a potential healthcare data breach for Kaiser Permanente, a healthcare system based in California. According...
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Lab Results and Data Breach
BioReference Laboratories in New Jersey may have suffered possible data breach when photographs containing PHI were sent in an unsecured email. According to the reports, some of its phlebotomists took...
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Malicious email and data breach
Mayfield Brain and Spine may have suffered data breach due to malicious emails. It has notified some patients about the healthcare ransomware incident. According to OCR reporting tool, the breach has...
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Internet and PHI breach
The Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC may have recently suffered data breach as few of its document where available on the internet. The incident may have occurred in February....
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Theft exposed PHI information
Some incarcerated patients at the California Correctional Healthcare Services are affected by the potential healthcare data breach. Affected information included PHI or personally identifiable...
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Hacking incident and data breach
Alcohol and substance abuse patients in San Juan County, New Mexico suffered data breach due to hacking incident. According to the official statement, San Juan County mentioned that an outside entity...
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Hacking incident and data breach
Indiana-based Lafayette Pain Care PC recently suffered probable data breach after an outside entity accessed some patients EHR data. According to the OCR data breach portal, around 7,500 individuals...
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Unauthorized access and data breach
The Southeast Eye Institute, PA, or Eye Associates of Pinellas recently suffered a possible healthcare data breach. The incident occurred due to hacking incident. An unauthorized party accessed...
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Employee misuse results in potential healthcare data breach
Inappropriate access to patient information over seven years has resulted in a possible PHI breach at an Iowan hospital, as per the report. Around 1,620 patients have been notified by UnityPoint...
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