Short and to the point from CJOB in Manitoba: A health clinic in Flin Flon has stepped up its policies on the destruction of personal health information. Someone contacted the Manitoba Ombudsman’s office after partially burned medical records containing personal health information were found blowing near a highway and gravel pit. The Ombudsman investigated and…
Category: Health Data
UK: Thousands of health records lost in council security blunder
Since Big Brother Watch came out with a report on breaches disclosed in freedom of information requests, there have been a number of stories about individual councils. This is just one of them. Adam Courtney reports: A security breach saw Hammersmith and Fulham Council lose the confidential health records of 3,500 people which were being…
Pakistani cosmetic surgery and hair transplant center's client database hacked and dumped (updated)
Over on DataBreaches.net, I’ve struggled to keep up with all the hacks that dump PII on the Internet. But there’s one from yesterday that involves patient data that should be mentioned here. A hack of vaguscosmetics.net (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) reveals 1,973 2,555 patients’ information. Here are the data fields from the dumped database:…
UK: Cleaner did not breach data security says hospital
A follow-up from Scotsman.com on a breach at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary mentioned previously on this blog: … NHS Lothian last night said that the cleaner had not breached the hospital’s computer systems and said instead that her name was on a computerised floor plan in the A&E ward. Jackie Sansbury, chief operating officer at…
UK: Police probe hospital patient privacy breach
Gareth Rose reports: An investigation is under way into a breach of patient confidentiality at one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals after a cleaner looked up a young mother’s medical records on a computer and used them to pester her online. The worker noticed the woman while she was being treated at the hospital’s accident and…
Personal info from more than 500 patients on Web
Associated Press reports that a patient in Alaska conducting a Google search discovered that patient records were exposed on the web and notified the police. Dr. Paul Beane, a chiropractor at the Sitka Wellness Center, told the [Daily Sitka] Sentinel an “electronic medical record software vendor” he used for about 9 months in 2008 had…