Posts Tagged NHS Data breach
Information Commissioner finally fines the NHS for a breach of the Data Protection Act
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 30/04/2012
The Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) has become the first part of the NHS to be issued with a penalty (£70,000) for breaching the Data Protection Act. The breach occurred when a consultant emailed a letter to a secretary for formatting, but did not include enough information for the secretary to identify the correct patient. […]
Six Years of Data Breaches including the TOP 10 largest Breaches
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 19/09/2011
Image by jaygoldman via Flickr The Leaking Vault 2011 report from the Digital Forensics Association has gathered data from studying 3,765 publicly disclosed data breach incidents, and is the largest study of its kind to date. Information was gleaned from the organizations that track these events, as well as government sources. Data breaches from 33 countries were […]
Who has the Information Commissioner caught in the last 3 months ?
Posted by brianfpennington in brian pennington on 08/09/2011
Image via Wikipedia On the 7th September, The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced the results of its investigation into The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act after it lost the personal data of 87 patients. The information was lost after a medical student, who had been on a placement […]
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