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Walter Reed Army Medical Center breach through P2P

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2008-06-03 09:14:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Medical Center ("WRAMC Victims Military Health System beneficiaries" or patients Number Affected 1,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and other information Breach Description WASHINGTON (AP) Sensitive information on about 1,000 patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other military hospitals was exposed...
 
Tags: information, personal information, walter reed, sensitive information, wramc personnel, wramc, network access control, network access, team wramc
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Medical Device Security Center , with researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Washington. They have two published papers Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices ," Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Castlecroft Medical Practice patient information at risk

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2008-06-19 11:54:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Medical Practice Victims Patients Number Affected 11,000 Types of Data names, dates of birth, addresses, contact details and confidential medical records Breach Description A laptop containing confidential medical records of all 11,000 Wolverhampton patients at a city surgery has been stolen from a GPs house, police revealed today ...
 
Tags: information, confidential information, confidential information disclosure, confidential information maintain, practice, castlecroft medical practice, computer, laptop computer, adolescent information
 
 
 
 
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Select Medical Corporation charged by the Texas Attorney General

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2008-01-11 16:20:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Medical Corporation Contractor/Consultant/Branch Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown more than 4,000 pieces of its customers sensitive information Types of Data Names, addresses, treatment details, telephone numbers, credit and debit card information, and Social Security numbers ...
 
Tags: clients personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, sensitive medical information, customers sensitive information, texas attorney, texas, attorney
 
 
 
 
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Australian medical information found in abandoned amusement park

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2008-06-28 13:10:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...medical records Breach Description The Sydney West Area Health Service has been embarrassed by the discovery of medical records in an abandoned amusement park Reference URL ABC News Macquarie National News Macquarie National News (2 Report Credit ABC NEws Response From the online sources cited above The Sydney West Area Health Service...
 
Tags: confidential medical records, medical records, clinical waste, waste, waste disposal procedures, disposal, records, procedures, amusement park
 
 
 
 
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Highly sensitive medical information found in the road

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2008-01-10 14:11:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...medical details" including HIV, cancer, sexual disease, and hepatitis test results and information on people attending conception and addiction clinics Breach Description On Friday January 4th, 2008 a motorbike bag was discovered in the street near the Kingston Hospital. The bag held hundreds of documents containing sensitive medical...
 
Tags: sensitive medical information, information, kingston hospital, hospital, test results, hepatitis test results, data protection breach, breach, kingston hospital spokeswoman
 
 
 
 
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Medical records under threat

2008-06-20 19:20:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...medical records. Apparently Finjan (a security vendor) was trolling for malware and came across a large chunk of data with patient information etc - and get this, it was available for purchase for the highest bidder By now all of us are aware that hackers are no longer kids looking for laughs or thrills - they are the new criminal...
 
Tags: medical, medical records, suspect medical information, criminal organizations, organizations, patient information, bank account information, insurance fraud, identity theft
 
 
 
 
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Centralized, electronic storage of medical records

2008-02-27 10:46:37 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...medical records pilot into perspective. The pilot is described in a Newsday article. Google, the California search engine company, and the Cleveland Clinic - an Ohio medical institution with a reputation for quality care - said last week they will collaborate on a pilot program to store patient records online. The test program will allow 1,5
 
Tags: pilot, pilot program, ohio medical institution, engine company, blog postings, quality care, cleveland clinic, newsday article, test program
 
 
 
 
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Thieves pilfer backup tape holding 2M medical records

2008-04-26 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473b50 in Network World on Security
 
University of Miami officials last week acknowledged that six backup tapes from its medical school that contained more than 2 million medical records was stolen in March from a van that was transporting the data to an off-site facility
 
Tags: million medical records, miami officials, backup tapes, medical school, off-site facility, university, week, data, march
 
 
 
 
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Medical records - the new frontier in data theft?