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58 Saskatchewan patients had health data breached: Province
From: Erica Absetz <eabsetz () opensecurityfoundation org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:38:58 -0500
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/02/20130215-092226.html Nearly 60 Saskatchewan residents had their private health information accessed when the records were shown to students at a Regina college, the province said. Saskatchewan's Ministry of Health said Thursday the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is investigating the privacy breach. Up 140 students viewed the data in a health management course at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology beginning in 2005-06, the ministry said. The province informed the 58 patients whose information was involved and told the college to stop using the file. "The ministry understands that in the instructional setting, individual personal health information would not likely have been accessed or viewed; however, it was a part of the source file used to show aggregate data by age, gender and region," the province said in a statement. It is not clear how the college obtained the private health records. _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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