Monday, April 18, 2005
Faxing Medical Records...
This has happened a couple of times now, so it seems worth mentioning. As we’ve been hearing about data breaches in the past two months, we’ve been focused on computer weaknesses: hacking, social engineering for database access or plain old theft of laptops.
Well, there’s another technology being implicated in poor data control: the fax machine.
A hospital in New Zealand accidentally sent confidential medical files to a brewery instead of the patient’s doctor. Seems that someone dialed most of the number correctly but got the area code/prefix wrong. The brewery says the same mistake has been made on several other occasions. Hospital authorities are very sorry.
In a similar vein, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is fighting a $9 million lawsuit filed last month for mistakenly faxing sensitive financial data on its customers to a West Virginia scrap yard over the past three years. The bank is sorry, too.
Well, there’s another technology being implicated in poor data control: the fax machine.
A hospital in New Zealand accidentally sent confidential medical files to a brewery instead of the patient’s doctor. Seems that someone dialed most of the number correctly but got the area code/prefix wrong. The brewery says the same mistake has been made on several other occasions. Hospital authorities are very sorry.
In a similar vein, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is fighting a $9 million lawsuit filed last month for mistakenly faxing sensitive financial data on its customers to a West Virginia scrap yard over the past three years. The bank is sorry, too.
# posted by AmandaWelsh @ 11:02 AM 
