When I saw the headline, “Class action lawsuit seeks to send message about the importance of safeguarding data,” I thought, “Oh, puhleese, how many times are we going to claim we’re just trying to send a message? Why haven’t they gotten it already?” But then I kept reading a news story by Joel Griffin, and…
Category: Health Data
ME: Island Nursing Home successfully sued by former employee
It’s not often we see an employee lawsuit against an employer over lousy data protection, and when we do, it’s more likely to be potential class-action lawsuits by employees following a hack or other data breach. In this case, an individual employee sued her former employer for not adequately storing and protecting her information. Faith DeAmbrose…
FL: Hollywood Man Sentenced To Over 12 Years For Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Case Involving Theft Of Over 5,000 Identities
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on DataBreaches.net, and it appears to be yet another case of an insider breach to fuel a tax refund fraud scheme in Florida, but we still don’t know the name of the company or covered entity from whom the identity information was stolen. Nor do we know whether…
Ebola and Privacy: Snooping, Confidentiality, and HIPAA
Daniel Solove writes: One of the things that struck me about the Ebola cases at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital was that all of the Ebola victims were named almost immediately. How could this happen? In all the swirling news coverage, I was struck by the fact that few were asking the question: Why were all of…
MN: Ex-Mayo Clinic exec accused of stealing trade secrets
Jeff Kiger reports: A former top Mayo Clinic executive is being sued for allegedly hiding his hiring by a competitor of Mayo Medical Laboratories for months while he continued to work for Mayo while stealing trade secrets. Mayo Clinic filed a lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract against Dr. Franklin R. Cockerill…
Laptops stolen from Albertina Kerr's Gresham campus contained information on 1,300 psychiatric patients
Eric Apalategui reports: Two laptop computers stolen from Albertina Kerr‘s campus in Gresham may have carried sensitive medical information, including the identities, diagnoses and treatments for up to 1,300 current and former patients. The burglary occurred two months ago, likely on Aug. 6, when someone broke into a single office at Kerr’s crisis psychiatric care facility on Northeast…