Catherine Varnum reports that Baptist Primary Care is sending out hundreds of warnings to patients after a former worker was caught with private patient records: It’s an alert patients didn’t want to get: Their personal identity found in a former Baptist employee’s car. Action News was first tipped off to the potential security breach on a…
Month: November 2014
MN: Northfield Hospital & Clinics patients notified of breach after PHI accidentally disposed of improperly
From Northfield Hospital & Clinics web site on November 21: Patients to be notified of breach of patient information Northfield Hospital & Clinics is in the process of directly notifying 1,778 patients about a recent breach in the handling of protected patient information. The notification stems from an incident over a period of eight days…
Concerns raised over misplaced patient records at UNMCC
Ryan Luby reports: While battling a serious illness, no one wants to worry about their medical records ending up in the wrong hands or in the wrong place. Yet, while acting on a tip, 4 Investigates learned there were concerns raised about patient privacy at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, or UNMCC. 4…
IE: Credit Union investigator fined €5k over data breach
Tom Tuite provides the update on a previously reported breach: A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardai and the ESB. Judge John O’Neill heard that credit unions hired the services of former garda Michael J Gaynor, now trading as…
Data Security Auditor May be Drawn Into Data Breach Class Action for Failing to Identify Vulnerabilities
DrinkerBiddle reports a development in Storm v. Paytime, Inc., No. 14-cv-01138-JEJ (M.D. Pa.): In August, Paytime, Inc., a payroll services company, moved to dismiss a putative class action filed in the wake of a data breach in which the personal and financial information of more than 230,000 people was compromised. Paytime argued that the plaintiffs lack standing, have failed to plead…
Canada Revenue Agency privacy breach leaks prominent Canadians’ tax details
Dean Beeby reports: Detailed tax information about the private lives of hundreds of Canadians — many of them rich and famous — was sent to CBC News by Canada’s tax agency in an apparent major privacy breach. The highly confidential details, including home addresses of taxpayers and the value of tax credits they were granted,…