DAILY CLIPS COVER - East Carolina University

Yankaskas spent the past 16 years running the Carolina Mammography
Registry, which analyzes data to improve radiology techniques and breast
cancer detection.
The dispute centered on what university officials said was the scientist's
failure to secure a server housing much of that data, including about 114,000
Social Security numbers.
UNC School of Medicine officials discovered in 2009 that the server had
been infiltrated two years earlier. It held data for the mammography registry,
a 15-year project that compiles and analyzes mammogram data in an effort
to improve breast cancer screening.
Although the university doesn't think any personal information was
removed, it nonetheless notified all 180,000 women with data on the server
and set up a call center to answer questions once word of the breach got out.
Doing so cost roughly $250,000, officials say.
Yankaskas, the project's principal investigator, argued she shouldn't be
expected to have the level of information technology expertise necessary to
secure the computer server.
Funding cycle
Since 1995, the Carolina Mammography Registry has compiled and
analyzed data submitted from radiologists across North Carolina.
It is also one of five such registries contributing to a national effort whose
collective findings have helped shape federal policy related to breast cancer
screenings.
Its future is now cloudy.
It has received at least $8 million in federal grants since its inception, but its
most recent funding cycle just ended and the university has applied for a
new round of funding.
With Yankaskas preparing to retire, she is transferring the registry and its
responsibilities to a new investigator, Louise Henderson, according to the
settlement agreement.