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Update: Details on the Delta Dental breach

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Dissent

The other day, in blogging about recent updates to HHS’s breach tool, I noted an entry from Delta Dental of Pennsylvania involving ZDI: Delta Dental of Pennsylvania reported that their business associate, ZDI, suffered a breach involving the loss of paper records for 14,829 patients. The breach occurred on March 20. I was unable to find…

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NY: Personal Files From Erie County Social Services Found Discarded

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Dissent

WGRZ reports: The Erie County Comptroller’s office says an audit has found copies of residents confidential personal information left in open areas that are accessible to the public. Some the information in the records includes birth certificates, social security cards, and medical records. The comptroller says the records were found during an ongoing audit of…

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Updates to HHS's breach tool (updated)

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Dissent

HHS added 13 more incidents to its breach tool today.  Six of them have been reportedly previously on this blog: Hope Hospice IHC Health Services, Inc. dba Intermountain Life Flight. Of note, they reported that that the breach began on October 12, 2009. That’s a long time to go undetected. El Centro Regional Medical Center reported that 189,489 patients…

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Medical worker stole patient identities

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Dissent

Debbie Knox of WISH TV in Indiana reports: Greenwood police was the agency that alerted Community Health that they had an employee who was stealing patients’ identities. “A former patient had stated that they had reason to believe that someone had taken their identity,” said Jean Putnam, Vice President at Community Health Network.” Between mid-March…

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AU: Hackers steal physio clinic files

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Dissent

Jessica Elder reports on another case of ransomware and an extortion demand affecting a health facility in Australia: A Mermaid Waters physiotherapy clinic is the second medical practice on the Gold Coast to be held to ransom by an international hacker demanding $5000 to unlock patient files. The scam, which has affected businesses across the…

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LSU Health: Personal information of 8,300 patients unintentionally released

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Dissent

For the second time in six months, Louisiana State University (LSU) has disclosed a breach involving patient information. Willard Woods of KSLA reports: A database error in a computer entry field led to the disclosure of personal health information of 8,330 LSU Health patients. The hospital says it notified each patient on Wednesday of the…

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