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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
...Patients Number Affected 6,313 Types of Data The information included names, addresses, medical departments and some patient medical record numbers Breach Description 05-01) 17:22 PDT San Francisco -- Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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LabCorp patient records fall off the back of truck

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2008-03-30 21:19:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Patients Number Affected Unknown thousands of patient medical records Types of Data Medical records, lab results, and possibly billing information Breach Description Thousands of sensitive medical documents fell out of a truck bed and ended up scattered across the road for just about anyone to see and take Reference URL WOAI Channel 4...
 
Tags: labcorp, records, patient medical records, medical records, truck, fredericksburg road, road, suppose labcorp, documents
 
 
 
 
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Reproductive Medicine Center doctor loses patient data on flash drive

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2008-02-01 16:44:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Patients Number Affected 3,100 Types of Data Patient information including details of infertility treatments Breach Description A doctor with the University of Minnesota Physicians, Reproductive Medicine Center lost a flash drive containing sensitive personal information belonging to patients. He was using the flash drive to back-up his...
 
Tags: drive, flash drive, flash, drive holds details, lost drive, sensitive personal information, information, social security information, data
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 guilty on Friday to selling information from the personal records of over 50,000...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, records, access records, dwight mcpherson, mcpherson, patients, male patients
 
 
 
 
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Pragmatic CSO Podcast #8 - Triage (or saving the patient)

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2008-03-12 10:17:32 by Mike Rothman in Mike Rothman's blog
...patient This week we continue our journey through Step 3: Managing Expectations and talk about how to present the "bad news," as part of your efforts to ensure the senior team knows what you are up to and why. The triage part of the discussion is also pretty important because it will indicate whether you have a snowball's chance in hell of...
 
Tags: podcast, pragmatic cso podcast, pragmatic cso, triage, step, bad news, news, patient, senior team
 
 
 
 
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Patient charged in computer theft from Indiana VA center

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4f390 in Network World on Security
 
A one-time patient at the Richard Roudebush VA medical center in Indianapolis has been charged with stealing a hospital computer last November that contained confidential information on nearly 12,000 veterans. But the missing computer itself has still not been recovered
 
Tags: computer, hospital computer, medical center, one-time patient, richard roudebush, confidential information, indianapolis, november, veterans
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...patient data by eavesdropping on signals from the tiny wireless radio that Medtronic, the devices maker, had embedded in the implant as a way to let doctors monitor and adjust it without surgery There's only a little bit of hyperbole in the New York Times article. The research is being conducted by the Medical Device Security Center , with...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 possible to share patient information across the whole of the NHS safely,...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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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
...Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Personal information, including patient names and addresses, dates of birth, medical conditions and patient numbers Breach Description WA POLICE are investigating claims by The Sunday Times that the newspaper was able to access private details of hospital patients from old computers found...
 
Tags: hospital claim, hospital, computers, hospital computers, sunday times hired, sunday times, patient details, confidential patient details, times
 
 
 
 
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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
...Patients Number Affected 88,000 Types of Data names, Social Security and health insurance numbers Breach Description STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --