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‘Snippets’ of Patient Data Are Accidentally Posted
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:22:07 -0400
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/snippets-of-patient-data-are-accidentally-posted/ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center said Monday that bits and pieces of information, including 10 Social Security numbers, from about 6,800 patients had been inadvertently disclosed on the Internet. The institutions said in a written statement that the information was mistakenly placed on a server from which it became public. Myrna Manners, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said it appeared that someone internally had made a mistake, and that there was no criminal wrongdoing. She said that “snippets” of data, like names, ages, surgical status, temperature and pulse had become accessible to Internet search engines. But Ms. Manners said it did not appear that diagnoses had been exposed. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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