From the hospital’s web site today: Notice to Patients: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals has notified approximately 21,000 patients that there was a theft of a laptop computer containing personal information. Affected patients have been sent a letter detailing the extensive identity protection resources being made available to them. On June 14, 2010, an employee reported…
Category: Health Data
(follow-up) Former UCSF employee pleads guilty to online scam
The Associated Press reports that Cam Giang, a former employee at the UCSF Medical Center, pleaded guilty to using his colleagues’ personal information without their consent to get vouchers for purchases at Amazon.com. Federal prosecutors say that from January to April he used his fellow employees’ Social Security numbers to create hundreds of accounts with…
PA: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Notify Patients of Security Breach
From the hospital’s web site today: Notice to Patients: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals has notified approximately 21,000 patients that there was a theft of a laptop computer containing personal information. Affected patients have been sent a letter detailing the extensive identity protection resources being made available to them. On June 14, 2010, an employee reported…
Colorado agency notifies 105,470 clients of stolen hard drive
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is notifying 105,470 clients receiving state-provided health insurance that a stolen hard drive contained some of their personal information. A statement on the agency’s web site does not provide much detail and simply says: State officials discovered that there was an unauthorized removal of a computer…
Colorado agency notifies 105,470 clients of stolen hard drive
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is notifying 105,470 clients receiving state-provided health insurance that a stolen hard drive contained some of their personal information. A statement on the agency’s web site does not provide much detail and simply says: State officials discovered that there was an unauthorized removal of a computer…
(update 2) South Shore Hospital contractor named
Although not named in South Shore Hospital’s press release about a lost shipment of back-up files slated for destruction, the data management firm was named in the hospital’s report to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It’s Iron Mountain Data Products (but see correspondence below from Iron Mountain that it was not them…