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What Will Stop Data Breaches?

A series of incidents in April called attention to the serious issue of data security.

* A former employee of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center was charged with accessing almost 50,000 patient records over two yearsundetectedand selling some of them.

* Six computer back-up tapes with data on 2.1 million patients at the University of Miami were stolen.

* WellPoint Inc. suffered its third breach of personal information in 18 months.

* A former employee of UCLA Medical Center was charged with accessing medical records of celebrities and selling them to tabloids.

The April events came on the heels of a January incident, when an unencrypted ...

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