KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
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(follow-up) TN: Man Who Worked For Colo. Company Gets Prison Time For ID Theft
As a follow-up to a story reported here in April: A former child support worker has been sentenced to 43 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and fraud. Steven K. Gilmore, 29, of Nashville, was sentenced Monday for selling Social Security and bank account numbers. […] Prosecutors said Gilmore sold to an informant more…
Kaiser Patient Data Stolen
KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
Health Net reports yet another breach
To add to Health Net’s data protection woes, on January 6, it notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on September 9, it learned that a report sent electronically to one of its general insurance agents mistakenly contained information belonging to Health Net members who were not clients of that agent. The personal information…
New Chinese Tort Liability Law Contains Provisions Affecting Personal Data
Hunton & Williams provide more details on the newly passed Chinese tort law: Certain of its provisions relate, expressly or in a general sense, to personal information. These provisions can cause data users to incur liability to data subjects for the mishandling of personal information. In particular: The law (at Articles 2 and 6) states…
MGH scandal continues
Hannah Clay Wareham reports: The debacle beginning in March 2009 with the loss of confidential patient records on a Red Line train continues in the new year with allegations of harassment against Massachusetts General Hospital staff. […] Soon after Jacob received the administrative assistant’s e-mail, Jacob says an anonymous caller alerted him to the appearance…