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A data breach occurred recently at the Department of Natural Resources where an employee illegally accessed the driver’s license records of more than 5,000 Minnesota residents.
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A data breach occurred recently at the Department of Natural Resources where an employee illegally accessed the driver’s license records of more than 5,000 Minnesota residents.
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The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is facing a $50-million class action lawsuit from 12 patients affected by a data breach. Read more here.
A recent data breach occurred after an employee of an Idaho hospice center had their laptop stolen from inside a car, resulting in a $50,000 fine from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Read more here.
Updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act could make IT companies more liable when information regarding patient health is leaked in a data breach. Read more about the update here.
A data breach involving the health information of 4,000 patients treated in the University of Michigan Health System has been reported.Read more about this data breach here.
Large data breaches in 2012 included the data breaches at the South Carolina Department of Revenue and the Utah Department of Health. Read more about the data breaches this year and the lessons to be learned from them here.
Two recent studies suggest that the most common causes of data breaches in healthcare organizations are lost or stolen devices and employee error. Read more about these studies and the findings here.
A massive data breach affecting Nationwide and Allied Insurance has exposed the data of over 1.1 million people in the nation. Read more about this data breach.
The Macy’s Day Parade was the venue for an uncanny data breach. Apparently, confetti that rained down on parade-goers contained information regarding crimes and the names, social security numbers, and bank details of police officers. Read more here.
Approximately 28.5 thousand households in the state of Georgia could be affected by an online security breach of Nationwide Insurance Co. Hackers gained access to personal information of policyholders and applicants. Read more here.