When you confess something to a pastor, you assume it will be kept confidential. But an Iowa woman says that’s not what happened at the University of Iowa hospitals in Iowa City. Dayna Leichty’s son was being treated at the hospital. At one point, Dayna told a chaplain that she was pregnant. That information ended…
Category: Health Data
Lost CD spurs hunt by NYS Department of Health
Rick Karlin reports from New York: A compact disc containing the names of 328,000 New Yorkers with developmental and other health issues has been missing for almost a month, prompting a massive desk-by-desk search at the state Department of Health’s Corning Tower headquarters. “We have not been able to locate within our Early Intervention program…
Blue Cross Mistake Releases Personal Info of 12K Members
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…
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…