Protenus has released its Breach Barometer for January health data breaches. While the number of insider and external incidents continue to run pretty much neck-to-neck, once again external breaches accounted for significantly more breached records than insider incidents. Protenus reports: Of note, hacking incidents affected significantly more patient records, due largely to one particular breach…
Category: Health Data
Funeral directors, hospital employee charged with corruption, data breach
Matthew Agius reports: Three men have been released on bail in relation to the leaking of personal details relating to deceased hospital patients to funeral directors. The son of a patient who died at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre had told local newspaper the Times of Malta that two funeral directors had turned up at…
Bathurst pharmacist to pay $17,000 for texting private information about a patient
CBC reports: A Bathurst pharmacist who was caught texting information about a patient to someone outside that person’s “circle of care” has been sanctioned for professional misconduct. Pharmacist Diane Roy was suspended Oct. 3, 2016, from her job at the Bathurst Jean Coutu drugstore after the allegation surfaced, and she was dismissed shortly after. Then, on Nov….
Millville ShopRite experiences data security incident
Maxwell Reil reports: A ShopRite pharmacy in Millville experienced a data security incident involving the loss of personal and medical information, according to Wakefern Food Corp., the cooperative that supplies goods and support services to ShopRite stores and pharmacies. According to a news release, a device used in the pharmacy to capture customer signatures was…
MUSC terminates employees who ‘snoop’ in patients’ medical records
Mary Katherine Wildeman and Lauren Sausser report: Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient files or disclosing private information. Some of these privacy breaches involved high-profile patients. Read more on Charleston Post…
Sensitive info may be compromised after City of Houston employee’s laptop stolen
KHOU reports: Information about City of Houston employees’ health insurance may have been compromised after an employee’s laptop computer was stolen. City officials say the laptop was stolen from the employee’s car on Feb. 2. They say the password-protected computer may have contained city employees’ records, including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers…