Category: Health Data

Sandra Yin reports on some breaches that weren’t reported previously on this site: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) found that Children’s Hospital of Orange County sent patient records to an auto shop in 2009, according to the Orange County Register. The business received six faxes containing healthcare information, including information that identified the…

An annual funding notice sent to 3,178 participants in the Eastern Connecticut Health Network Pension Plan exposed the participants’ Social Security Numbers on the mailing label after the firm’s consulting group, Mercer, subcontracted a mailing. According to a letter sent on May 13 by Jonathan Barry of Mercer to the New Hampshire Attorney’s General Office,…

Tom Corwin reports: About 13,000 people will be getting notices from University Hospital of a potential breach in privacy because of a missing data tape, even if it appears unlikely that it was actually taken or that anyone could use the data, an official said Thursday. The tape is one of two backups created for…

From Courthouse News: Two EMTs working for the City of Casa Grande took “inappropriate and salacious” photos of a woman suffering a grand mal seizure and published them with “offensive comments,” the woman claims in Pinal County Court, Ariz. A copy of the complaint is available on their site, here. The suit names the City…

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…