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Hackers Take Medical Records, SSNs and Other Personal Information From the Athen Ohio University health center...For the 3rd Time: HIPAA Violations?

Today the Columbus Dispatch reported that hackers had broken in the Ohio University health center for the third time during the past 3 weeks.  Some of the people whose information was taken have already noticed their information being used fraudulently.  The potential exists for the information to continue to be used in the coming months...if it hasn't been misused yet, it certainly is no assurance that it will not be misused.

The Department of Health and Human Services indicated they are going to investigate to see if HIPAA requirements have been violated.

Appears there have been some sanctions applied as a result...

"Three OU officials have been placed on paid administrative leave to help ensure a "full and fair" audit, OU spokesman Jack Jeffery said. The action is not disciplinary, and the employees are not suspected of wrongdoing, he said.  Duane Starkey, director of computer services; John Beam, assistant director of computer services; and Steve Ray, server administrator, were suspended Friday."

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.