A second class-action lawsuit has been filed in a Houston federal court against Comptroller Susan Combs on behalf of 3.5 million Texans whose personal information was exposed to public access on a government computer server for more than a year. “We are seeking the $1,000 statutory penalty for each of these individuals whose privacy was…
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GA: Chiropractor Charged With Identity Fraud
According to the Paulding County Sheriff’s office, Dr. Christopher Lockerman, of Lockerman Family Chiropractic, in Hiram was arrested Wednesday and charged with 8 counts of financial identity fraud and one count of theft by deception in a case that involves over $264,000.00 of identity theft. Detectives said they were first made aware of this case…
Patients at Charleston Area Medical Center sue following data breach
Joseph Goedert reports: Five of about 3,655 patients whose protected health information at Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia was breached last September have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status for all affected patients. The suit, Tabata v. Charleston Area Medical Center, was filed in Circuit Court in Kanawha County. The Charleston law…
Two other incidents reported to HHS
I haven’t found any documentation or media coverage of the following yet, so am simply reproducing them from HHS’s breach tool: Park Avenue Obstetrics & Gynecology, PC, AZ,, 635, 3/25/2011,Theft, Other Portable Electronic Device,, Union Security Insurance Company,MO,, 935, 2/18/2011,Unauthorized Access/ Disclosure,Other,, Does anyone have more information on these breaches?
CA: Concerns raised about paperwork spilled in San Rafael Highway 101 mishap
Will Jason reports that 20 boxes of documents with sensitive medical and financial information went flying off the back of truck owned by Baker Moving and Storage after it experienced a flat tire on Highway 101 near the Marin Civic Center while moving the records from one warehouse to another: Baker, whose company is based in…
Ie: HSE set to stop giving details on patients to media
Elaine Keogh reports: The Health Service Executive is to stop providing journalists with information on the condition of patients. It says that to tell the media the condition of a patient is “incompatible,” with its obligations to the privacy rights patients have “through the Constitution and indeed our obligations to article 8 of the European…