The Epsilon breach, covered extensively on DataBreaches.net, just got worse. Yesterday, 12 days after they were notified of the breach by Epsilon, GlaxoSmithKline sent out notifications. Emphasis added by me, below: From: “[email protected]” <[email protected]> Date: April 16, 2011 1:30:36 PM EDT To: [redacted] Subject: An Important Message from GSK Consumer Healthcare Reply-To: “[email protected]” Dear GlaxoSmithKline…
Category: Health Data
Former Holy Cross Hospital employee sentenced to prison for disclosing patient information
Natasha Lolita Orr, 36, of Miami, a former employee at Holy Cross Hospital, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to disclosing individually identifiable health information. During the previous plea hearing, Orr admitted to stealing patient information from the Holy Cross Hospital Emergency Room during her employment at the hospital. She then sold that stolen…
Former Holy Cross Hospital employee sentenced to prison for disclosing patient information
Natasha Lolita Orr, 36, of Miami, a former employee at Holy Cross Hospital, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to disclosing individually identifiable health information. During the previous plea hearing, Orr admitted to stealing patient information from the Holy Cross Hospital Emergency Room during her employment at the hospital. She then sold that stolen…
Mailing error by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida misdirects almost 7400 Explanation of Benefits Notices
As noted yesterday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida was one of four entities added to HHS’s breach tool as recently reporting a breach. I contacted BCBSFL and they kindly sent me a link to a press release they had issued on March 7 explaining the incident: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Corrects…
HHS reveals four more breaches
None of the following incidents appear to be reported on entities’ web sites or in the media sources I check, so here is how HHS reports them on their breach tool and I will try to find out more about them: JEFFREY J. SMITH, MD,OK,,600,11/24/2010,Loss ,Desktop Computer/Other Portable Electronic Device,, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital,TX,,…
MN hospital loses box with patient records
Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports: In February, staffers at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis packed up about 1,200 patient records for shipping to a new office across town. Unfortunately, no one at Fairview has seen the box since. This week, officials began notifying patients that their health and billing records — including names,…