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Queen Mary's Sidcup Hospital microfiche film goes missing

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2008-01-22 12:22:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospital from 1974 through 1996 Number Affected thousands Types of Data may include names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, bank details and job titles Breach Description Confidential personal information belonging to workers employed by Queen Mary's Hospital from 1974 to 1996 is reported missing after a microfiche film containing...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, microfiche film, microfiche, film, hospital, information, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospitals NHS Trust Contractor/Consultant/Branch Royal Bolton Hospital Victims Patients who receive or have received oxygen treatments at home Number Affected 350 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, NHS numbers*, GP practices, and some details about the patient's oxygen supply It is the common unique identifier that makes it...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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Lost Memorial Hospital laptop affects employees and retirees

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2008-02-08 14:14:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospital American Airlines Victims Employees and retirees Number Affected 4,300 Types of Data Names, addresses, birth dates, ID numbers, and Social Security numbers Breach Description An employee of Memorial Hospital lost a laptop containing sensitive personal information belonging to employees sometime while traveling in November, 2007....
 
Tags: memorial, hospital, memorial health system, memorial hospital lost, memorial hospital, sensitive personal information, personal information, hospital staff, employees
 
 
 
 
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Staten Island University Hospital notifies patients of December theft

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2008-05-01 15:09:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospital Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected 88,000 Types of Data names, Social Security and health insurance numbers Breach Description STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Computer equipment stolen from an administrative office in Rosebank in December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, information security breaches, hospital, island university hospital, protect patient information, island
 
 
 
 
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Laptop missing from Russells Hall Hospital (UK)

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2008-02-15 14:08:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospitals Outpatient Department at Russells Hall Hospital Victims anticoagulation patients people who suffer from blood-thinning problems Number Affected 5,123 Types of Data medical records Breach Description A laptop was stolen from the Outpatient Department of Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, West Midlands, on January 8. The laptop...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, data protection, information security, data encryption software, russells hall hospital, hospital
 
 
 
 
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Presbyterian Hospital admissions rep allegedly steals patient information

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2008-04-14 16:04:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected Over 50,000 Types of Data names, phone numbers and social security numbers of male patients between 58 and 78 years old Breach Description A former employee of the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College pleaded...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, records, access records, dwight mcpherson, mcpherson, patients, male patients
 
 
 
 
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Buffer Overflows are like Hospital-Acquired Infections?

2007-09-16 12:35:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...hospital-acquired infections Urinary tract infections for example are extremely rare when proper protocols are followed Blatant surgical errors Tools left in patient for example. There are easy ways to make 100% sure this doesn't happen. What is most interesting I think is that historically there have been problems with these issues, but we...
 
Tags: buffer overflows, infections, patient, buffer overflows tricky, errors, patient differences, avoidable errors, tricky, blatant surgical errors
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Bolton Hospitals Laptop affects cancer patients

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2008-02-04 10:47:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Hospitals Victims gynaecology cancer patients from Bolton, Wigan and Salford Number Affected 200 Types of Data names, addresses, information, their diagnosis and treatment and clinical correspondence between medical staff Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to gynaecology cancer...
 
Tags: royal bolton hospital, bolton hospital, bolton hospitals, hospital, relevant hospital staff, hospital staff, patients, bolton, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Dr Beetroot and the Stolen Records

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2007-08-27 14:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...hospital and had alcohol when she was not supposed to The Minister has not denied the fact that she had alcohol while in hospital but has been upset that the Sunday Times had a copy of her medical records. (This is typical government spin doctoring; according to Nick Naylor from Thank You For Smoking : "That's the beauty of argument, if you...
 
Tags: sunday times, sunday times newspaper, records, information security, information, sunday times controversy, newspaper, public hospital, medical records
 
 
 
 
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Controversy surrounds Royal Perth computers and patients

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2008-04-08 00:21:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog