Courtney Perkes reports: More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the company’s Web site. Only customers who had pending insurance applications in the system are being contacted because information was viewed through an on-line tool that…
Category: Health Data
Lawsuit filed over Our Lady of Peace breach
Erick Flack of WAVE reports that a lawsuit has been filed over the Our Lady of Peace breach. “The lawsuit accuses the hospital of negligence, invasion of privacy and emotional distress and asks for punitive damages.” Even though the breached information did not include Social Security Numbers, diagnosis, or treatment information, this is one of…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
WA: 8,000 patient records stolen from Family Care Center on Whidbey; identity theft feared
Jeff Vanderford If you are, or have ever been, a patient at the Family Care Center physical therapy clinic, call your bank. Right away. That’s the advice of owner Jim Christensen, after discovering that more than 8,000 of his patients’ names had been stolen during a burglary last weekend. The list includes patient accounts from…
X-ray tech accused of voyeurism was storing Willard Mercy medical records
Cary Ashby reports: A Willard rental unit company found various Mercy Willard Hospital records being stored by a former ultrasound technician accused of voyeurism and child pornography at a Tiffin facility. However, Mercy CEO and President Lynn Detterman said there was nothing considered suspicious, pornographic or of a criminal nature in the storage unit once…
Hong Kong: Hospital data stolen (updated)
RTHK reports: A computer hard disk containing the names, identity card numbers and other personal information of about 3,000 eye patients has been stolen from the Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po. The hospital said the disk was kept in a locked room pending destruction. It was discovered missing last week. A search was…