Hillary Davis reports: A burglar swiped a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive medical and personal data for hundreds of mental health patients from Yuma and across the state. Alicia Z. Aguirre is the general counsel for Yuma’s Arizona Counseling and Treatment Services, a contracted provider with Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona. It was one…
Month: April 2013
Data Breach Class Actions Can’t Survive Certification Without Expert Testimony on Classwide Damages
James (Jim) R. McCullagh and Amelia M. Gerlicher of Perkins Cole recap the status and issues in a class action lawsuit against Hannaford Bros: This is the latest opinion in the ongoing litigation arising out of a massive data breach suffered by Hannaford Bros. grocery stores. In re Hannaford Bros. Privacy Litigation, __F. Supp. 2d __,…
State National Insurance claims no responsibility to pay for Global Payments’ breach costs
Global Payments may have gotten some welcome news when a class action lawsuit against was dismissed last month (Willingham v. Global Payments), and they may have concluded its investigation of the breach they disclosed in March 2012, but they’re not done with problems from the breach, it seems. Law360 reports: Global Payments Inc.’s excess insurer State…
Weather Shield employees find out they are identity theft victims once again
Back in April 2011, I noted that employees of Schield Family Brands were being alerted to a possible breach after there were 87 reported cases of ID theft/fraud affecting employees. Schield Family Brands includes four central Wisconsin window and door manufacturers: Weather Shield, Peachtree, Vetter and Crestline. At the time, the Secret Service took over the investigation as…
Follow-up: Auckland district health board disciplined more than 30 staff members for snooping
Back in October, I noted a case involving staff at Auckland City Hospital improperly accessing and circulating the x-rays of a man who had an eel up his rectum. Radio New Zealand has the follow-up: A six month investigation has found 33 doctors, nurses and other staff breached the man’s privacy after he turned up at Auckland…
Schneck Patient Information Available Online
Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana reports that 3,000 patients’ names were inadvertently exposed online after an employee gave a presentation elsewhere and the presentation was subsequently uploaded to that institution’s web site. Anyone delving into the files could have uncovered patients’ names. Other personal info, such as Social Security numbers, medical and payment information…