I wish I had a dollar for every mailing error where someone’s Social Security number was exposed in the envelope window or embedded in the mailing address – or where one person’s statement got combined with another person’s in the same envelope. But those kind of mailing errors are nothing compared to a mailing error…
Category: Health Data
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center notifying patients of breach
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center is notifying patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. In a letter signed by Julie Miller-Phipps, Senior Vice President, Executive Director of Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County, patients were informed that Kaiser Permanente was notified on on September 25 that a flash drive containing patients’ names,…
In Monroeville, have politics and personal allegiances trumped data privacy and security?
A PHIprivacy.net editorial. As regular readers know, PHIprivacy.net and PogoWasRight.org have been covering breach accusations involving the emergency medical dispatch (EMD) and police criminal history databases in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. The town’s investigation into the allegations, an independent forensic evaluation of the security controls in use for the systems, and a subsequent state attorney general’s investigation all confirmed…
IL: List of social security numbers mistakenly mailed to workers
Bonita Cornute reports that 800 Metro East health care workers at Bridgemark‘s Belleville facility recently received a mailing with their 401k updates. Unfortunately, the mailing included all 800 plan participants’ names and corresponding Social Security numbers. Read more on Fox2.
UK: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust signs undertaking
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following four separate incidents in the last 18 months where letters containing medical information have been sent to the wrong address. In most of these cases, the letters had been sent out by temporary or bank members of staff…
UCSF notifying 8,294 gastroenterology patients whose PII and PHI were on laptop stolen from doctor's car
Statement from UCSF: UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to the theft of a physician’s personal laptop computer that contained personal and health information. While the physician believed the laptop was encrypted, this could not be confirmed. As a result, the individuals involved are being notified. The security of protected health information at UCSF…