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Hospital IT employee goes to prison for identity theft
Posted on November 2nd, 2010 No commentsA former hospital IT employee was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for illegally obtaining and misusing medical personnel’s private information, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California.
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Federal, industry reps call for national standards to report data breaches
Posted on October 29th, 2009 No commentsThe Homeland Security Department should establish a national standard to encourage companies and individuals to report data breaches to federal authorities, helping them gauge the intensity of cyberattacks and investigate cybercrime, security professionals said on Wednesday.
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Patients’ medical records land in man’s mailbox
Posted on October 29th, 2009 No commentsThe bill on the top was addressed to him, but underneath was a stack of medical records of more than 70 people. The private information included copies of driver’s licenses, surgery records, and Social Security numbers.
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NHS attacked with a massive 8,000 PC worms
Posted on July 29th, 2009 No commentsOver 8,000 worms that infected computer systems of National Health Service (NHS) in U.K during the past financial year (April 2008-March 2009) resulted in problems that related to patient data, hospital documents suggest. Consequently, it is feared that patients’ private information might have been in danger of identity theft, as the worms damaging the PCs are also hackers’ instruments to capture personal information.
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