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Notable Breaches of PHI in 2009…
This week, Network World posted an interesting slide show of some notable breaches of Health Record privacy from 2009. The mode of disclosure is telling, with internal misuse/fraud and stolen devices/media being prevalent.
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/090209-health-breaches.html
The companies mentioned are: Read more…
ChoicePoint fined an additional $275,000 for failures to have an effective security policy…
Following on from my story on repeat data loss offenders, tho week ChoicePoint has been fined $275,000 by the FTC for failures to have an adequate data security program in place. ChoicePoint lost the PII of 160,000 U.S residents in 2004 (which they were fined $15 million for), and another 13,750 in 2008 according to Grant Gross of IDG News Service.
Interestingly, this later breach could have been mitigated by a “key” electronic security tool they had in place to monitor the database, unfortunate for them though, it had been turned off. Read more…
Who?
 | EVP Cyber Product Innovation for Mastercard. Formally the Chief Technology Officer for Intel Secure Home Gateways, CTO for McAfee Enterprise Endpoint, CTO McAfee Innovation team, and Founder/CTO SafeBoot Corp. |
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