Security Breach Report for 2007-01-25
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The names and Social Security numbers of 3,031 newly licensed nurses were posted online twice in the past two months.
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Personal information about an unspecified number of current and former Prudential Financial employees was on a handful of laptop computers stolen from a consulting firm’s New York offices, Prudential told employees last week.
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Laughable new service. Don’t be fooled by entering your SSN or credit card number. Phishing anyone?
Written by MCruz on January 25th, 2007 with
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Jennifer
#1. January 26th, 2007, at 8:05 AM.
Consumers and patients have made it very clear that they are concerned about medical identity theft and expect their healthcare providers and insurance companies to protect their medical information. And there are specific steps that can help protect patients / consumers.
In a recent survey sponsored by EpicTide, 98 % of consumer respondents indicated they expected healthcare providers to protect their medical records. 50 % of the respondents were aware of medical identity theft and 3.5 % reported they were victims. Only 30 % of the consumer respondents indicated they believe healthcare organizations are diligent about informing them when there has been a suspected breach. The full survey results can be access by going to: http://www.epictide.com/documents/MIT-receive-more.html
On the healthcare provider side, there are a series of proactive steps that set a culture of security & privacy within their organizations. For example, installing software that proactively identifies electronic signatures of medical identity theft in the healthcare provider environment is high on the list of priorities in this area.
http://www.epictide.com