Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The records – which should have been kept in a dedicated storage area – were put in a disposal room due to lack of space. The records were then mistakenly removed from…
Category: Health Data
Class action lawsuit filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Multi-Specialty Collection Services
Sue Dremman reports that a lawsuit has been filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and its former vendor, Multi-Specialty Collection Services, LLC. You can read about it on Palo Alto Online. This is one of those cases where I really do view a breached entity as a victim because SHC seems to have done everything…
CO: Sensitive Patient Records Found Scattered At Shopping Center
Don Champion reports: An Aurora street sweeper found hundreds of sensitive dental patient records scattered near a Dumpster behind an Aurora shopping center on Saturday. The billings records contained patients’ Social Security numbers, birth dates, names and addresses — information that could be abused by identity thieves. […] The documents trace back to Dentistry at…
UK: NHS trust lost 800 patient records on unencrypted memory stick
An NHS trust has done it again – losing 800 confidential patient records on an unencrypted memory stick. The Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust patient records were lost in September 2010. Shockingly, the details were on an unencrypted memory stick and worse, the 800 affected patients were never told. Leaked details include full name, date…
AU: Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud
There’s nothing really new here, but it’s a useful reminder. Natalie O’Brien reports: Criminal networks are feeding off Australians’ lust for new technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia – and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft. They will pay as much as $200 on the black market for…
Medical, personal information for 500 employees stolen from a home
Erin L. Nissley reports that personal and medical information for approximately 500 Penn Foster employees was stolen from the home of an unnamed business associate of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The business associate’s name will be public information when the breach is posted on HHS’s breach tool, but for now, here’s what we know…