Jennifer van der Kleut reports: The Fairfax County Health Department has mailed letters to 1,499 clients of the Bailey’s Health Center, located in Falls Church, to inform them of an unauthorized disclosure of some protected health information. View the letter to Bailey’s Health Center clients. This is one of those situations where it really pays to have Business…
Category: Health Data
Pointer: Lanap and Implant Center breach
For those of you who haven’t caught on that I have a slew of other breach reports over on PHIprivacy.net, I thought I’d give you a pointer to a really horrific breach I’ve been covering over there this week. It involves 11,000 patients’ data (yes, including SSN and DOB) winding up on a torrent site…
Lanap and Implant Center patients never told that their Social Security numbers were – and are – still online for download?!
Sometimes it pays to keep Googling or re-checking with different search strings. Today, I managed to locate the text of what appears to be the The Lanap and Implant Center’s substitute (media) notice on the breach I’ve previously discussed here and here. First, the text of the notice: Public Notice or Legal Notice #: 4095248…
Thousands of Pennsylvania dental patients may be at lifetime risk of ID theft after patient database is uploaded to torrent sites
Dave Bohman of WNEP recently reported on a breach involving Lanap & Dental Implants of Pennsylvania. The breach involved someone uploading a copy of the dental group’s practice management software (Dentrix) to a torrent site. The upload didn’t just contain the software, however. It also contained unencrypted patient record databases. As a result, over 11,000 patients – mostly…
New Medical Identity System Alerts Consumers to Fraud and Theft
There’s a new commercially developed product that may help consumers detect medical ID theft or fraudulent use of their information promptly so it can be addressed. Given how research has shown that most people do not check their Explanation of Benefits statements and don’t report discrepancies or anomalies when they do find them, this has…
Police solve riddle of who stole files that blew up A-Rod’s career
A DNA match has unraveled the mystery of the stolen steroid files that Major League Baseball used to torpedo the career of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Baseball investigators purchased the stolen files from Gary Jones, a convicted bank robber, for $25,000 last March, in a secret meeting in South Florida that Jones…