Kate Newton reports: Hutt Hospital has apologised to two patients after accidentally including their names and some medical details in public meeting papers. The blunder was discovered after the papers for Tuesday’s Hutt Valley District Health Board meeting had been distributed and the meeting held. The patients’ names were published in a section on serious…
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Check cashing business throws out documents with Social Security numbers
Denae D’Arcy reports: A man made a disturbing find in North Knoxville Thursday evening. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of documents with personal information were dumped behind a shopping center. […] When a 6 News crew arrived at Fast Cash in a shopping center at 5100 Clinton Highway, they found documents scattered around a dumpster behind the…
Visa Warns of Fraud Attack from Criminal Group
Brian Krebs reports: Visa is warning financial institutions that it has received reliable intelligence that an organized criminal group plans to attempt to move large amounts of fraudulent payments through a merchant account in Eastern Europe, possibly as soon as this weekend. In an alert sent to banks, card issuers and processors this week, Visa…
NH: Patients will have chance to object to disclosure of medical records ordered by search warrant
FourthAmendment.com informs us of a case in New Hampshire where there will be greater privacy protection going forward for medical records produced in response to a search warrant: Search warrant for medical records, in the future, requires the record holder to produce in camera to protect doctor-patient privilege so the patient can object to the…
Improper disposal of hundreds of loan applications raises security concerns
Roman Gokhman of the Contra Costa Times reports: The financial and personal details of about 300 property loan applicants were compromised when confidential documents were mistakenly tossed into an outdoor waste bin. The paperwork, belonging to FHG Finance, a home loan business at 548 Contra Costa Boulevard, was discarded last week by a cleaning crew…
More breaches revealed on OCR’s site
In addition to the breaches that we already know about from the media, I periodically scan OCR’s list of reported breaches to see what we didn’t know about. Here are two other breaches that I posted to PHIprivacy.net, but that also belong here because they involve SSN and not just healthcare information: Pediatric Sports and…