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North Country Hospital struggles to retrieve laptop that may contain PHI from former employee (UPDATED)

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Dissent

North Country Hospital in Newport, Vermont  posted this notice on their web site: North Country Hospital is alerting its patients to the discovery of a recent privacy breach that may involve your personal information. On September 18, 2013, we received notice that a former employee of the Hospital claimed to be in possession of a…

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University of California wins appeal in data breach lawsuit; plaintiff couldn't prove data were viewed or accessed

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Dissent

An update on a lawsuit that followed this breach involving a stolen hard drive with encrypted PHI on over 16,000 UCLA patients. Law360.com reports: A California appeals court on Tuesday found that the University of California’s Board of Regents couldn’t be held liable for disclosure when they lost a hard drive with a woman’s medical…

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Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County breach notice

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Dissent

On October 4, Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County in Wisconsin posted this notice on their site: On August 6, 2013 Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County discovered a potential breach of unsecured patient health information involving financial statements that were inadvertently sent to some third parties.  While most of the approximately 8,000 notices mailed were sent to…

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Temp employee at health benefits administrator examined and stole employees' personal and medical info – FBI

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Dissent

So an unnamed staffing agency places an employee at Paragon Benefits, Inc., a firm that administers health benefit plans for TSYS and Kelley Manufacturing. And within days, the employee is improperly accessing personal and health insurance information on those firms’ employees: Files accessed by Johnson included two files, one from TSYS and another from Kelley…

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Washington psychologist whose laptop was stolen from his car has license to practice suspended

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Dissent

Back in March, PHIprivacy.net noted that a psychologist’s laptop containing PHI on 652 clients of Washington Department of Social and Health Services  had been stolen from the psychologist’s car.  As we reported at the time, the laptop was recovered from a pawn shop. Today, there was an interesting follow-up from KING5, who report that Dr. Sunil Kakar’s…

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Burglary at Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County compromises clients' personal and medical information

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Dissent

Lawyers are supposed to protect clients’ information, but it seems the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County played with fire until its clients were burnt. During a burglary of their offices on August 12,  ten of their laptops with clients’ personal information were stolen. In a letter to those affected,  M. Stacey Hawver, Executive Director, writes: We…

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