Category: Health Data

Hackers managed to infiltrate phone systems at a Bodmin hospital and St Austell doctors’ surgery and could have accessed confidential medical information about patients. Phone systems at Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre and Polkyth Surgery in St Austell were both hacked into by people trying to use the systems to make their own calls. Bodmin Treatment…

A Berkeley woman was sentenced to state prison Tuesday for using identity theft to steal more than $24,000 in breast work and liposuction from a cosmetic surgeon in Greenbrae. Rosland Renee Edwards, 37, received a term of 32 months by Judge James Ritchie. Part of the sentence was for the Marin case, and part was…

Highland Council has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act after two laptop computers containing personal information – including the medical details of around 1400 people – were stolen from its Inverness headquarters. Both laptops were password protected and stored in a locked office, but they were not encrypted and no additional security…

From the this-sounds-so-very-very-wrong dept: Two nurses who lodged a complaint with the Texas Medical Board about a physician’s standard of practice at a West Texas hospital face up to 10 years in prison after being indicted on charges of misuse of official information. The charges have raised the ire of the medical community, which calls…

As a follow-up to a story posted last week: There could be more victims in the identity theft investigation of a dozen senior citizens including some deceased patients, this according to the Visalia Police Department. Investigators say a former intern at Kaweah Manor Convalescent Hospital in Visalia stole patient records and used the information to…