Sunbury Plaza Dental in Ohio has notified HHS of a breach that impacted 7,784 patients. Their public notice explains that on May 25, they were notified by local law enforcement that their secured storage unit containing business records had been burglarized sometime between March 10th and March 20, 2016. We were not aware of any…
Category: Health Data
Wyoming officials investigate medical office documents
It sounds like something broke down somewhere in the disposal of 96 boxes of medical office documents found in a dumpster, but it’s not yet clear who’s responsible. The Wyoming Board of Medicine reported Monday that medical office documents from College Hill Health Center have been retrieved but the board has not had a chance…
CO: Lasair Aesthetic Health notifying patients after manager took information after resigning
According to HHS’s breach tool, 1,835 patients were notified of this incident. I wonder what the former employee intended to do with the stolen information. Notice to Lasair Aesthetic Health patients regarding Privacy Incident Lasair Aesthetic Health, P.C. (“Lasair”) is notifying patients about an unauthorized acquisition of some patients’ personal health information. We deeply regret…
Denmark sent sensitive health data to Chinese by mistake
This may be one of the most epic fails disclosed in 2016. There is just so much wrong here…. Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen of Reuters reports: Sensitive health information about almost the entire population of Denmark ended up in the wrong hands when a letter by mistake was sent to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish…
Doctor devises new database methodology to thwart hackers and end big data breaches
Bill Siwicki reports: Longtime healthcare and technology veteran William Yasnoff, MD, has created a personal grid tactic for tuning relational databases to make it harder for hackers to steal large sets of medical records. And Yasnoff, a managing partner at NHII Advisors, said that hospital CIOs and CISOs or technology vendors can use the personal…
Confidential Info of 388 HIV Patients Feared Leaked in China
Trust of India reports: Personal information of at least 388 Chinese HIV patients has been allegedly leaked in a fraud in which individuals had called them up posing as governmental officials, state-run media reported on Tuesday. “A total of 388 persons have received scam calls in 31 provinces,” Bai Hua, the head of Baihualin National…