Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…
Category: Health Data
Almost 10,000 being notified of January computer theft at UC San Francisco Family Medicine Center
Statement from UC San Francisco, today: By Elizabeth Fernandez UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to a burglary involving unencrypted desktop computers that contained some personal and health information. While there is no evidence that there has been any attempted access or attempted use of the information involved in this incident, UCSF is responding with…
NC: Cornerstone alerts patients after laptop with personal information stolen
Owen Covington reports: High Point-based Cornerstone Health Care has alerted more than 500 patients after a laptop at one of its practice locations that contained patient information was stolen earlier this year. On Feb. 26, Cornerstone began reaching out to 548 patients of Cornerstone Neurology in High Point to let them know about the theft,…
St. Joseph Health breach affected 11,800 patients
Martin Espinoza reports some additional details on the St. Joseph Health breach reported here a few days ago: St. Joseph Health mistakenly divulged the private information of 11,800 home health patients — including 1,762 in Sonoma and Napa counties — to an investment firm working on a business proposal for the health system. Neither financial information…
Two Iowa Dept. of Human Services employees blamed for security breaches of more than 2,000 Iowans' personal information
The Iowa Department of Human Services announced Friday that there was a breach in personal information related to some Polk County social work assessments. There are 2,042 individuals whose information was included in the breach, which happened during the assessment period of some child and dependent adult abuse cases. Letters were mailed this week notifying…
WA: Skagit County Government Settles Potential HIPAA Violations
Skagit County, Washington, has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. Skagit County agreed to a $215,000 monetary settlement and to work closely with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to correct deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program….