From Radio New Zealand, the bad news and the good news: Canterbury District Health Board has apologised for a privacy breach in which cricketer Jesse Ryder’s medical file was accessed by unauthorised hospital staff. Ryder was admitted to Christchurch Hospital on 28 March with a fractured skull and collapsed lung, following an attack outside a…
Month: April 2013
IIROC notifies investment firms and clients after device with personal information lost (updated)
From their press release of yesterday: The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) deeply regrets the accidental loss of a portable device that contained personal information relating to clients of a number of investment firms. IIROC has taken several measures to notify the firms and their clients and to provide them with support services. As soon as…
Florida Hospital Co. Sued Over Scheme To Sell Patient Info
Law360 reports: Adventist Health System/Sunbelt Inc. was slammed Tuesday by a class action in Florida federal court alleging it violated patients’ privacy rights by failing to prevent emergency room workers from selling access to the health care organization’s medical records database. The complaint in Faircloth v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. stems from the insider breach…
Former employee who sold firm’s databases on eBay found guilty of database rights infringement
Out-Law.com reports: A man who sold databases belonging to a former employer on eBay has been found guilty of database rights infringement. The High Court also found the man who purchased the databases, and the woman who subsequently marketed them for sale to others, guilty of database rights infringement. The employee, referred to as ‘Mr Wall’…
More sensitive documents found in central Indiana dumpster
NBC News filed this report last week from WTHR: It was only a few weeks ago that 13 Investigates uncovered hundreds of personal records trashed in an open dumpster. Now, another tip has led to the discovery of more files containing private information like Social Security numbers for anyone to take. The files were very easy for us to…
Medical, dental records found in church recycling dumpster
Here’s a report from Mar. 18 that I missed when it was first posted by WTHR in Indianapolis: Thousands of patient records found by our 13 Investigates team are now in the hands of state investigators. Late Tuesday afternoon, special agents with the attorney general’s office picked up boxes loaded with thousands of sensitive, personal…