Todd Maisel, Kerry Burke, and Joe Kemp report: Stacks of paperwork containing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of patients were carelessly dumped on the sidewalk when a Brooklyn medical supply store was shuttered. The landlord said he was unaware of the papers’ sensitivity when he tossed the files outside Landmark Medical Supplies…
Month: March 2013
NY: Medical file probe widens
Bob Gardinier reports: The number of Samaritan Hospital private medical records illegally accessed by Rensselaer County Jail personnel has more than doubled and the period of the probe widened from three to five years, hospital officials say. Read more on Albany Times Union.
Court Holds that Hannaford Data Breach Suit Cannot Proceed as Class Action
In the latest development in a long-running data breach lawsuit case, Ropes & Gray write: On March 20, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Maine denied a motion brought by plaintiffs in In re Hannaford Brothers Company Data Security Breach Litigation that would have allowed the suit to proceed as a…
Bullying is not an appropriate breach response
I recently posted what I considered to a stupid lawsuit – one where the party that had a breach sued the hapless recipients of the breached information. Today I found another example of bullying and threats in response to a breach. It seems that an employee of Tooele County made an error years ago and…
Family Health Enterprise notifies patients after laptops stolen in office burglary
I don’t recall ever seeing an actual statistic as to how often laptops are stolen from locked offices after hours, but I wonder if we’ve done enough to get the word out to covered entities that it might be better to rely on encryption than to rely on the physical security of the office premises….
St. Albert doctor suspended for privacy breach
Kevin Ma reports: An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to…