A stolen laptop containing personal and protected health information of 1,700 clients of Catholic Social Services in Anchorage has resulted in a notification to the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and affected clients. According to a notice on the CSS’s web site dated March 30: on February 2nd, CSS learned of a theft…
Category: Health Data
UK: NHS Barnet reveals 187 breaches of personal data
Guardian Healthcare Network writes: A North London primary care trust has suffered the most personal data breaches among NHS trusts in the capital over the past three years, according to figures obtained by Guardian Healthcare. The figures showed that out of 30 trusts responding to a freedom of information (FoI) request, NHS Barnet owned up…
AU: Autopsy photos, details leaked
Megan Levy reports: A former Victorian forensic worker has admitted to leaking confidential autopsy results and details of “unusual and interesting” deaths to his friends over the past six years, an Ombudsman’s report has revealed. The male technician, who resigned from his job with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in January, said he shared…
Porn industry STD testing clinic that was implicated in horrific privacy breach shuts down; files for bankruptcy
Dennis Romero reports: It has been a saga much more juicy than any of porn’s non-plots. Nearly three months after reopening as a private entity, AIM Healthcare, the clinic that tests adult performers for STDs, has shut down and filed for bankruptcy, industry sources confirmed to the Weekly. We were told a privacy lawsuit challenging…
Stolen Laptop Compromises Patient Information
WMUR reports: Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth (New Hampshire) is warning patients that a laptop computer with patient information was stolen last month. Officials said the computer was in an employee’s locked car in Boston on April 3. It contained patient names, addresses, hospital account numbers, medical record numbers, and other patient and health information….
Woman Arrested for Identity Theft While Temping for Doctor's Office
Chandra Johnson Greene reports Stamford police arrested a 42-year-old Mount Vernon, NY, woman Monday afternoon for making fraudulent charges to credit cards she had access to while doing temp work for a Stamford-based doctor’s office. According to Sgt. Robert Shawinsky, Melba Witter of 461 South 3rd Ave. was employed by Staff Providers, a Wilton-based staffing…