Keith Roysdon reports: A bag of patient information was lost for several days and recovered along McGalliard Road in Muncie, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital has announced. The bag contained billing paperwork for about 1,399 patients, according to the hospital, which is part of the IU Health network. The bag was lost around Sept. 23…
Category: Health Data
Staunton medical practice reports patient data breach after employee wrong-doing
Gabe Cavallaro reports: Valley Family Medicine (VFM) in Staunton announced Friday that there was a breach of protected health information for some of its patients in mid-July. Two employees printed and misused a mailing list of 8,450 patient names and addresses. One of those employees then used that list to make postcard notifications informing certain…
Ca: Privacy breach at Hay River clinic prompts discovery of 41 ‘irregularities’ with patient files
CBC News reports: The N.W.T. Health department says another privacy breach has occurred at a territorial health care facility — this time at a medical clinic in Hay River. As a result, it’s commencing a review of patient files. In a news release, the department says an internal audit was conducted by the Hay River Health…
NY: Catholic Charities’ server hacked, possibly as early as 2015
Paul Nelson reports: The personal information of about 4,600 past and present clients and several employees of Catholic Charities may have been exposed after a computer server in the Glens Falls office was hacked, according to Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Albany. It sounds like the hacked server contained some medical information on the…
Ca: Patients of marijuana dispensary upset after personal information shared in email
Jacquie Miller reports: The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Gloucester has apologized after emails were accidentally sent to 24 patients that revealed the names and addresses of all the store’s customers. “Some people were obviously upset, for good reason,” said Charlie Cloutier, owner of Greenworks Medicinal on Canotek Road. Staff phoned all the…
ICE Leads Investigation Into Medical Records Stolen From East Brunswick
There’s a follow-up to an incident previously reported on this site. Charlie Kratovil reports: A Sayreville man was arrested on September 12 and charged with “selling medical records that he stole from a storage unit in East Brunswick,” according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO). Authorities stated that “over 1,000 medical records,” which contained…