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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Care Trust NHS (PCT Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims PCT "clients Number Affected 148 Types of Data The information lost related to copies of assessments about future healthcare needs held in a secure central file. It included peoples names, addresses and dates of birth I'm not sure if this means that copies of assessments AND...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...care was provided Some patient medical record numbers and the names of the patients' physicians also were available online The breach was discovered Oct. 9, but the medical institution did not send out notification letters to the 6,313 affected patients until early April, nearly six months later Sensitive information can be used by...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Stockport Primary Care Trust flash drive goes missing

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2008-01-21 09:44:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Care Trust NHS Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected 4,000 Types of Data NHS number, Specific Stockport PCT identification number, First and second name, Date of Birth, Sex, Condition (if condition was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, heart failure, coronary heart disease, diabetes or epilepsy),...
 
Tags: senstive personal information, personal information, information, medical information, information security matters, information security, information security management, information line, management
 
 
 
 
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Foreign Hackers Stealing American Health Care Records

2008-02-20 12:30:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...care records, according to a Department of Homeland Security analyst Mark Walker, who works in DHS' Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers' primary motive seems to be espionage Espionage? Um, how? Walker said the hackers are seeking to...
 
Tags: health care records, health, foreign hackers, hackers, health care data, national security standpoint, homeland security analyst, walker, mark walker
 
 
 
 
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Application Due Care

2008-02-18 08:55:12 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Often I hear phrases such as "if the application is truly built secure inside-out, then there is no need for other security layers". Truly secure application is a far fetched statement 1. What is the application made of? - Complexity 2. How was the application built? - Methodology 3. Where does the application run? - Environment 1. Complexity -...
 
Tags: application, application due care, development methodology, methodology, application runs, application exist, application security, development, secure application
 
 
 
 
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Stolen University Health Care laptop requires notification of 4800

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2008-03-14 10:39:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Care Victims patients Number Affected 4,800 Types of Data names, social security numbers and personal health information Breach Description Possibly 4,800 patients information could be compromised, when a laptop with names, social security numbers and personal health information was stolen from University Healthcare Reference URL KUTV...
 
Tags: information, information assets, personal information, confidential information, information security governance, patients information, university, sensitive information, information security personnel
 
 
 
 
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Security firm finds server with health-care data

2008-06-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8aed268 in Network World on Security
 
Security researchers with Finjan Software are seeing a growing thirst from cybercriminals for data other than credit-card numbers, with the latest findings including servers containing passwords leading to heath-care records and airline systems data
 
Tags: data, airline systems data, finjan software, heath-care records, security researchers, passwords, credit-card, thirst, cybercriminals
 
 
 
 
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Why You Should Care About Security and the Government

2008-06-03 17:45:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...care about security and the Government and what you can learn from watching the Government succeed or fail The .pdf of the presentation is here . Feel free to share with your friends, coworkers, and co-conspirators View | Upload your own Bookmark to
 
Tags: government, care, slideshow complete, security, coworkers, impaler, friends, bit, share
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...care workers in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties Number Affected Thousands DCF is notifying about 1,200 day-care providers and their employees Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and "other information Breach Description Five laptop computers were stolen from a Department of Children and Families (DCF) office...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...care. Rising premiums, covering less procedures and care and charging more for prescriptions and medical care combine to put the bite on everyone. From my own experience here are 4 examples of how even with health insurance, medical care costs are taking a bite 1. My wife had minor surgery in September. It was ambulatory surgery where she...