South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts agreed this week to pay $475,000 to settle allegations connected with a 2010 data breach affecting the confidential health records of more than 800,000 patients. The hospital has already spent $275,000 on new security measures, since the breach, bringing...
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Nemours, a children's health system with hospitals in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Florida and New Jersey, reported a massive breach affecting 1.6 million people, including patients, employees, and vendors. Via Health Data Management : 'On September 8, 2011, we learned that a locked tape storage cabinet...
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A spreadsheet containing personal data of 20,000 emergency room patients of Stanford Hospital appeared on Student of Fortune , a Web site which "crowdsources" homework to other students online. The lost data included names, admission dates, diagnoses, and other sensitive information. According...
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A survey by Veriphyr, a provider of identity and access intelligence solutions, found that insiders were responsible for over 60% of data breaches of protected health information (PHI). Specifically, 35% of the PHI breaches were due to insiders snooping into medical records of fellow employees, and 27...
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