Category: Health Data

Georgina Gustin reports: A Florissant orthodontist’s office has informed 10,000 people that their personal information could be compromised because of a break-in and burglary at its offices in July. Olson & White Orthodontics, which also has offices in O’Fallon, Mo., was burglarized on July 22. Thieves took computers containing personal data, including patient health information,…

The following statement attributed to LabMD was sent to PHIprivacy.net: LabMD Responds to Federal Trade Commission’s Witch Hunt FTC action a clear example of federal government overreach WASHINGTON – Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against LabMD claiming a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. LabMD responded: “The Federal Trade Commission’s…

More action in another case I’ve followed on this blog involving LabMD (previous coverage here). A notice today from the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against medical testing laboratory LabMD, Inc. alleging that the company failed to reasonably protect the security of consumers’ personal data, including medical information.  The complaint alleges that…

Here we go again: hundreds of documents with personal information of employees of Washington Inventory Service were found in a dumpster in Merriam, Kansas.

Holli Deal Bragg reports: The last three of 13 federal defendants in a tax fraud and stolen identity scheme centered in Statesboro pleaded guilty last week. Porsche Pinkney, Tidaesha V. Taylor and Gregory F. Smith entered guilty pleas as they stood before United States District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield in federal court in Statesboro,…

The following notice was submitted by a reader: UT Physicians, the medical group practice of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, announces that an unencrypted laptop computer containing some patient information was discovered missing on Aug. 2 from a locked closet in a UT Physicians orthopedic clinic. UT Physicians…