Valerie Hauch reports: Ellen Richardson went to Pearson airport on Monday full of joy about flying to New York City and from there going on a 10-day Caribbean cruise for which she’d paid about $6,000. But a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent with the Department of Homeland Security killed that dream when he denied her entry. “I…
Category: Health Data
WA: 90,000 patients of notified of breach after employee opened an email attachment with malware
You can warn and warn employees about not opening email attachments, but despite your best efforts, they do. And to make matters worse, you were storing Social Security numbers and they weren’t encrypted? The University of Washington Medicine posted this announcement on their site yesterday: November 27, 2013 Seattle — In early October 2013, a…
LabMD v. FTC update
The latest updates to a case this blog has been following: The FTC has responded to LabMD’s motion for a protective order to quash numerous subpoenas for discovery and to dismiss the complaint with prejudice. On the matter of the protective order, the court granted in part and denied in part, and denied the request…
Recent California Decision Upholds Data Breach Coverage
Understanding what your insurance will cover when it comes to a data breach and what it won’t can save you a lot of grief down the road. Roberta D. Anderson of K&L Gates analyzes a recent case where the court concluded that a breached entity was covered under the terms of their policy’s language, but…
Maryland Attorney General's Office enforcement actions for improper disposal of records with PHI
I was just reading news story about a breach in Maryland, and was surprised to learn that the Maryland Attorney General’s Office had charged two health care entities with improper disposal of records and that both cases had settled over the summer. Here’s the press release from August 27, 2013: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler…
FL: Patient data may have been leaked, doctors group warns
Josh Salmon reports: A physicians group with offices throughout Southwest Florida has notified 4,400 patients that their protected health information may have been breached. An employee at Florida Digestive Health Specialists LLP improperly accessed and photographed some personal patient records that included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and telephone numbers, according to the…