From the no-surprise dept., Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner announced an investigation into the Medicentres breach affecting 620,000: Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton has confirmed that she will launch an investigation into the recently reported Medicentres privacy breach, as well as a broader review of the way privacy breaches are reported in the health sector in this province….
Category: Health Data
Second Sentara Nurses Aide Sentenced For Conspiracy To Defraud The Government
There’s an update to a breach first reported on this blog in August 2013. Festus Ighalo, 37, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Thomas J. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge,…
CT: 850 St. Francis Hospital patients notified after records stolen from contract physician's car
NBC reports: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has reached out to more than 850 patients after records were stolen from a doctor’s vehicle in December to notify them of the privacy breach. The hospital released a statement saying it has notified 858 patients after learning that paper records were stolen from Dr. Bindu Vanapalli’s…
HHS updates breach tool to provide filters
I see that HHS’s breach tool has been made more user-friendly by providing some filters: That’s good to see, although it seems that they’re no longer showing a counter on that page, and as of last week, that counter showed 804 while the .csv file showed 792. I was aware that there were some duplicates…
Sidney Regional Medical Center notifying job applicants of exposure breach
If you applied for a job at Sidney Regional Medical Center in Nebraska, you may be receiving a breach notification letter in the mail soon, as they’re being sent out today. On December 12, Sidney Regional Medical Center learned that a previous version of their web site had been stored on a server without proper settings…
NC: CaroMont Health notifies patients of theft of their information
Less than three months after it disclosed one security breach, CaroMont is back in the news after a record with patients’ information was stolen from an employee’s car on December 16. Michael Barrett reports: Melissa Huggins said respiratory problems related to pneumonia took her to CaroMont Regional Medical Center last year. But she doesn’t understand…