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Canada: Sick Kids doctor loses data on 3,300 patients
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:32:07 +0000 (UTC)
past related article: http://attrition.org/dataloss/2007/03/sickkids01.html http://www.thestar.com/living/article/251904 Six weeks after Ontario's privacy commissioner ordered the Hospital for Sick Children not to remove electronic health records from the hospital, a doctor lost an external hard drive containing such records at the country's busiest airport. The hard drive, lost at Pearson International on April 21, contained personal health data on 3,300 patients who had received eye examinations or eye treatment at the hospital. The files included patient names, dates of birth, diagnoses, ophthalmologic images, and photographs of eyes and eye injuries. Helen Simeon, director of public affairs at Sick Kids, said it took months to reconstruct the information and affected patients were not notified of the security breach until a letter was sent Aug. 28. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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