Vermont-based Caledonia Home Health and Hospice is notifying patients after Netbook was stolen from an employee’s home on July 20. In a letter dated August 6 to those affected, the hospice writes: The Netbook contained the home health program, Palmwyse in which patient protected information, including social security numbers, was documented. A police report has been filed…
Month: August 2013
Sensitive Aberdeen child data found in Dundee skip
Frank Urquhart reports that Aberdeen City Council has ordered an urgent investigation after “extremely sensitive” child welfare documents were found at a council dump in Dundee. The documents include home addresses and medical details of social work service users and other personal information. Read more on The Scotsman.
ICO announces two new undertakings
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced two undertakings that were issued. Northern Health and Social Care Trust 13 August 2013 An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Northern Health & Social Care Trust. This follows a number of security incidents which led to a formal investigation into the Trust’s…
Walgreens Sued for Sharing Patient’s Private Medical Info
Josh Crank provides additional coverage on a case previously mentioned on this blog: A jury ordered Walgreen Co. to pay $1.44 million to an Indiana woman after one of its pharmacists illegally accessed and shared her medical information. But according to conventional legal wisdom, that lawsuit should never have made it to trial. The suit…
Chinese arrest 1,213 for trafficking in personal information
CRI English reports that Chinese law enforcement has broken up 468 gangs and arrested over 1,200 people, according to their Ministry of Public Security. A total of 1,327 cases of personal information trafficking were solved and more than 700 million pieces of personal information were seized by police from more than 20 public security organs…
Former employee of Resources for Human Development sentenced for stealing mental health residents' information for tax refund fraud scheme
Another update on a breach previously mentioned on this blog. From a July 24 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland: U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Derrick Elrod, age 35, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank fraud…