Teddy Kulmala reports: A safe with flash drives and hard drives that stored personal and medical information went missing from the Lancaster County EMS, and county officials are mailing letters to patients who have received EMS care since 2004. The safe was discovered missing from a county building on April 16, county officials say. Inside…
Category: Health Data
TX: Man stole personal information from people signing up for Obamacare
Andy Cerota reports: A government contractor in Houston who was supposed to be signing people up for Obamacare stole personal information from at least 17 people around the country. Kenneth Bacon, who worked in a Houston call center, is accused of taking down the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers that enrollees gave…
FL: Patients’ information at risk following security breach at health centers
WFTV reports: The personal information of dozens of patients could be at risk following a security breach at a central Florida hospital group. A former patient contacted Channel 9 after she received a letter saying her personal information may have been stolen. The woman, who didn’t want to be identified, said she was a patient…
Unauthorized access gained to Heartland Dental databases
Adam Greenberg reports: Illinois-based Heartland Dental is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals that unauthorized access was gained to a limited portion of its IT systems, and that personal data may have been compromised. How many victims? Undisclosed. What type of personal information? Names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, email addresses, certain information related to income and…
St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers breach
As I’ve often noted on PogoWasRight.org, student health records are generally covered under FERPA, not HIPAA. When a school district provides a health center, however, the student’s health records may be covered by HIPAA, as seems to be the case with the St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers in Louisiana. They notified HHS last…
NY: Montefiore Health System employee stole 12,517 patients’ information
From their web site: Montefiore Health System is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving information that was stolen by a former employee. The employee compromised the information of 12,517 patients, which included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, next of kin information, and health insurance details. The theft occurred between January 2013…