March 19, 2010

Doctor May Have Inadvertently Leaked Patient Data

University of California at San Francisco officials have warned approximately 600 patients that their medical data may have been leaked by a physician who fell for a phishing scam.

"An e-mail the unnamed physician received in September purported to come from UCSF IT workers performing an upgrade to internal servers," writes The Register's Dan Goodin. "It asked for a user name and password and the doc complied."

"In October, auditors determined that e-mails in the physician's account could have exposed clinical and demographic information for about 600 patients," Goodin writes.

Click here to read the story at The Register.

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