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On Friday (the second best day to report bad news), American Airlines announced that a hard drive had been stolen from it’s Fort Worth headquarters building.
On this hard drive was current and former employee:
Names
Addresses
Dates of birth
Social Security numbers
some bank information
Oh, and “No customer data was affected”…whew! I’m sure the employees are grateful.
Things we don’t know:
Was [...]
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Continue ReadingThat is the famous motto of Google…”do no evil”.
Cloud storage is the current hot topic these days.
Many don’t realize that Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL mail, etc are the precursor to cloud storage.
So, is there anything wrong with cloud storage?
Not if it is managed properly.
Today I was discussing with a client, and their IT person, an [...]
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Continue ReadingHIPAA Violations in Your Copy Machine?
Bryan Malatesta, CPA
iTotal Solutions.com
Does your practice use a copy machine? Do you ever make copies of patient information? If so, there is a good chance that your practice could be setting itself up for a violation of the HIPAA laws! Let me explain using the following simple scenario:
Your patient comes [...]
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Continue ReadingThe Veterans Administration had information on 4000 veterans stolen when a laptop that belonged to a contractor was stolen.
This laptop, with ePHI (electronic patient health information) on it, was not encrypted.
The VA noted that the contract with this contractor did not include a requirement to encrypt data.
Recall that in 2006 information on over 26 million [...]
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Continue ReadingArg!
Nope, not speak like a pirate day.
That is me censoring and keeping things clean here.
Details:
Government Contractor
Laptop Stolen from office
CD-ROM in laptop had data on 207,000 Reservists
Questions:
Why was data not encrypted?
Why was data on a CD-ROM?
What is going on here?
PHI on a mobile device (laptop/external hard drive/CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/thumbdrive) that is not encrypted is just asking for disaster.
Don’t [...]
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