Tag archive for ‘encryption’
HIMSS Report Reveals False Sense of Security for Patient Data
A report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) reveals some interesting new findings about the state of data security in the healthcare sector and, as most would agree, healthcare-related data is among the most sensitive of all. Healthcare IT News has a very helpful summary article about the report, and a blog [...]
UPDATE: Breached Data of 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Found…In Police Evidence Room
Here’s an update to a recent Rip of the Week concerning 3.3 million breached records of federal student loan recipients. It turns out that the data, which existed on “CDs and floppy discs,” was recovered shortly after the theft and was only recently discovered in a police evidence room, and connected to the case.
WCCO reports, [...]
Rip of the Week: 3.3 Million Student Loan Borrowers Breached
If you are a college student, or were a college student, and you had a student loan, it’s time to worry. Officials of St. Paul-based Educational Credit Management Corp. revealed that an unencrypted portable device was stolen during the weekend of March 20-21. The Wall Street Journal reports, and thanks to kirniki on DLDB for [...]
Tip of the Week: Watch Especially for Malicious Attacks
Continuing yet again to highlight great information found in the “2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach” by the Ponemon Institute, and sponsored by PGP, another good takeaway concerns malicious attacks versus insider negligence.
Most folks aren’t surprised to hear that malicious and criminal attacks are more expensive (more damaging) than insider negligence [...]
Rip of the Week: Thrivent Financial Suffers Mysterious Data Breach
A somewhat curious, and rather terse, laptop theft is this week’s Rip. Thanks to kirniki over at DataLossDB for the tip, National Underwriter reports that Thrivent Financial experienced a break-in at an office in Pennsylvania. A laptop was stolen, which contained personal information, including names, addresses, Social Security Numbers and health information.
But what is curious [...]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Posts “The Mega-Breach” Site
There’s a new list in town, and it’s one of “those” kinds of lists. The kind nobody wants to appear on. It’s similar to being on Santa Claus’ naughty list, only in this case inclusion could mean millions of dollars in fines for a business responsible for breaching personal health information (PHI).
The days of “a [...]
Rip of the Week: Hospital Apologizes for Medical Data Breach
We’ll combine a couple of medical data thefts for this week’s Rip of the Week.
First, the San Francisco Business Times reports that UC San Francisco reported a laptop theft that occurred on our about November 30, breaching 4,400 patients of the UCSF School of Medicine. The data included names, medical record numbers, age and clinical [...]
Rip of the Week: 15,000 Kaiser Patients Breached by Unencrypted External Drive
This week’s Rip is another episode of the “unencrypted external hard drive” show. Thanks to lyger over at DataLossDB for the heads up. The Fresno Bee reports that an external hard drive was stolen, containing names, medical record numbers, and for some patients, ages, dates of birth, gender, phone numbers and other information related to [...]
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