Archive for the ‘data breach’ Category
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
ID Experts today announced a new and unique solution for data breaches that involve protected health information (PHI) and associated risks of medical identity theft.
With the passage of the HITECH Act last year and the clarifying Rules published by Health and Human Services (HHS), healthcare organizations now face ...
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
It has been reported that 2009 has been the year of the mega-data breach. Recently reported statistics by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) would seem to bear this out as far as our federal government and military is concerned as well.
Government Technology, commenting on the report noted ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I'd recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The HHS Rules require healthcare ...
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
This past week, the Boston Globe wrote about a data breach incident at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts that occurred in August of this year and where the affected population of people is just now being notified. The breach, which included social security numbers, included over 39,000 ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
In recent months, with the continued growth in highly public data breach incidents, we began looking at how organizations assess their level of exposure to data breach risk. I suspect if you ask the CEO of most public companies or public sector organizations about their level of risk, that they ...
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