The following press release from North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper is a follow-up to a breach previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: Dr. Ervin Batchelor of the Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation in Charlotte has paid $40,000 for illegally dumping files containing patients’ financial and medical information, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Wednesday. “Any business…
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Verizon Adds Mobile Security To Healthcare Cloud
Nicole Lewis reports: Verizon has added healthcare identity standards for accessing electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges, as well as credentials for electronic prescribing and mobile connectivity, to its Verizon Universal Identity Services (UIS)-Healthcare cloud-based service. UIS-Healthcare provides an identity ecosystem for healthcare professionals seeking to securely access and exchange data over robust…
Jp: Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) apologizes for data leak
SOKENDAI issued the following public apology on September 1: We regret to inform that we have found the personal information appeared in the department chairs meeting materials was temporally accessible on the Internet. The reason this occurred was that the meeting materials were uploaded to the wrong place in High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)…
Ca: North Bay Regional Health Centre notifies 5,800 patients of inappropriate access of their records
Via BayToday.ca, a North Bay Regional Health Centre News Release: A breach of privacy relating to personal health information has occurred at the North Bay Regional Health Centre affecting roughly 5,800 patients. “Any information collected during a stay at the hospital is considered personal health information,” says Chief Privacy Officer, Marc Bouchard. “For example it…
UK: Breaches at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS and London Ambulance Service result in undertakings
A press release from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals two privacy breaches resulting in agreements to take remedial and proactive steps. The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients. The information was lost after a…
Santa Clara dental worker steals patient info, lands in prison
Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at least…