Associated Press reports: Kmart says some customer information may have been compromised during an armed robbery of its store in Little Rock last month. Kmart said Monday that it’s notifying pharmacy customers about the March 17 robbery. The company says the gunman took “electronic media” that backed up the pharmacy’s computer system. Kmart says the…
Category: Health Data
Glens Falls Hospital and business associate sued over patient records exposure breach
Scott Waldman reports that Glens Falls Hospital has been sued over the patient record exposure breach caused by its business associate, Portal Healthcare Solutions. I had previously discussed this breach, here. The lawsuit was filed as a potential class action lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Saratoga County yesterday on behalf of Dara Halliday and…
AZ: Laptop with patients' info stolen from home
Hillary Davis reports: A burglar swiped a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive medical and personal data for hundreds of mental health patients from Yuma and across the state. Alicia Z. Aguirre is the general counsel for Yuma’s Arizona Counseling and Treatment Services, a contracted provider with Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona. It was one…
Follow-up: Auckland district health board disciplined more than 30 staff members for snooping
Back in October, I noted a case involving staff at Auckland City Hospital improperly accessing and circulating the x-rays of a man who had an eel up his rectum. Radio New Zealand has the follow-up: A six month investigation has found 33 doctors, nurses and other staff breached the man’s privacy after he turned up at Auckland…
Schneck Patient Information Available Online
Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana reports that 3,000 patients’ names were inadvertently exposed online after an employee gave a presentation elsewhere and the presentation was subsequently uploaded to that institution’s web site. Anyone delving into the files could have uncovered patients’ names. Other personal info, such as Social Security numbers, medical and payment information…
Hong Kong DPA Finds Companies Violated Direct Marketing Rules
Michael Standaert reports: Hong Kong’s data protection authority concluded that a medical center and an insurance broker engaged in the “deceitful” collection and sale of the personal data of more than 360,000 people over a two-year period, according to an investigation report released April 9. Allan Chiang, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for the Hong Kong Special…