Tag archive for ‘medical records’
Rip of the Week: Believe it or Not, Another VA Data Breach…Maybe
The news is abuzz this week about an agency that’s no stranger in the data breach world: the Veterans Administration. Recall that back in 2006 the VA suffered a breach that threatened 26.5 million vets, via laptop theft. The Federal Times reports that that VA is investigating reports of a former VA physician’s assistant who [...]
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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