This is an update to a case previously mentioned on PHIprivacy.net. At the time, the emphasis of my coverage was on other members of the ID theft ring who worked in medical offices and stole patient information. NBC Miami provided more details on the school district aspect: Jasmin Rembert, a worker in the teacher certification…
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Medical, personal information for 500 employees stolen from a home
Erin L. Nissley reports that personal and medical information for approximately 500 Penn Foster employees was stolen from the home of an unnamed business associate of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The business associate’s name will be public information when the breach is posted on HHS’s breach tool, but for now, here’s what we know…
Update on the Florida Hospital breach
The Orlando Sentinel has updated its reporting on the Florida Hospital breach. You can read their coverage here, but among the new details revealed are that 2,252 patients are affected and that the purpose of the improper access seemed to be to identify car accident victims whose contact details could then be passed to an…
Confirmed: the SAIC/TRICARE breach was due to theft of tapes left in an unattended vehicle
Sig Christensen has the confirmation for my hunch that the SAIC breach involved theft and not just loss of the backup tapes: Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, said Thursday the worker had been given the job of taking the tapes from one federal facility to another when they were stolen. A San Antonio…
Notification delayed is notification denied? Betfair admits data hack… after 18 months
Nicole Kobie reports: Gambling website Betfair has admitted its systems were attacked 18 months ago, but says it didn’t warn customers on the advice of UK police. The gambling company was hacked in March 2010, according to a report leaked to The Telegraph, but Betfair didn’t notice the attack until six days later. The report said…
Florida Hospital privacy breach: Workers accessed ER patient information
David Breen reports: Florida Hospital has admitted — in a newspaper advertisement — that its employees improperly accessed patient information at emergency departments in three Central Florida counties during a 20-month period ending in August. Law enforcement has been contacted and investigators are reviewing what happened in what was described as an ‘inappropriate access” of…