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Stories about: patient records

Virginia Patient Records Held for Ransom An unknown hacker defaced the website of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program and left a message saying that he made an encrypted backup of the medical information stored in the database and deleted the original. A security breach has been confirmed by the Virginia Department of Health, but officials have ref... 6 May 2009 04:43 GMT Personal Records of Thousands of Dental Patients Compromised The IT personnel from UF's College of Dentistry discovered, during maintenance, that one of their servers had been remotely compromised. The staff found unauthorized software installed on the server that also contained personal information of more than 330,000 former and current patients.The personal records inc... 17 November 2008 10:08 GMT