From the press release: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) today announced that personal information belonging to approximately 12,000 BlueCHiP for Medicare members was inadvertently contained in a filing cabinet donated with other surplus office furniture to a local nonprofit organization. The filing cabinet mistakenly contained completed BlueCHiP for Medicare Health Surveys…
Category: Health Data
Previously unreported breaches in the healthcare sector
Earlier today, I posted some breaches that had been reported to the NYS Consumer Protection Board during the period September 1 – December 31, 2009, and for the beginning of this year. The state only posted summaries of the breaches, so I do not have details, but thought that the breaches should be noted. From…
95 new breaches in 2010 that didn’t make the news
The good folks over at the Identity Theft Resource Center recently posted a very gracious thank-you to me and this site for helping track data breaches. I suspect that they’ll be pulling their hair out this weekend, though. 🙂 In addition to the 100 previously unreported breaches from 2009 that I posted here today, here…
100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009
As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009,  141 breach reports were received by the…
Three recently reported breaches
The following incidents have been added to HHS’s web site of reported breaches involving unsecured PHI: University of Pittsburgh Student Health Center State: Pennsylvania Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 8,000 Date of Breach: 3/11/10 Type of Breach: Theft, Loss Location of Breached Information: Paper Records Laboratory Corporation of America/US LABS/Dianon Systems, Inc. State: Arizona Approx….
Ca: Snooping Pharmacist
Natalie Geddes reports: A pharmacist in Melville allegedly broke the law when he looked up the medication records of three people who weren’t even clients. A manager at L & M Pharmacy, Daryl Leshko say the man looked up the records because he was concerned for the well being of a personal acquaintance. The breach…