Seen on YNN: A portable electronic device containing personal medical information has been stolen from Upstate University Hospital. The hospital notified 283 patients that their information may be compromised. Information on the device may have included patients’ names, date of birth, hospital medical record number, and diagnosis. The device does not include patients’ Social Security…
Category: Health Data
OH: Solon dentist charged with illegal use of state database
Here’s something that I stumbled across while researching something else. Sun News Staff reports: A Solon dentist was indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury earlier this month for looking up personal information on an ex-girlfriend using the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy database. Between March 10 and Dec. 26, 2012, Dr. Fred Glick, 55,…
Florida women sentenced in tax refund fraud case; bought patients' identity information
Two identity thieves involved in the South Miami Hospital breach noted previously on this blog have been sentenced. The breach had resulted in tax refund fraud for a number of the hospital’s patients. The Sun Sentinel reports Alci Bonannee was sentenced to more than 26 years behind bars and Sonyini Clay was sentenced to 10 years in…
UK: GP practice in County Armagh warned after patients’ details compromised following email attack
A GP practice in County Armagh has signed an undertaking to improve the security of patients’ information following a breach of the Data Protection Act investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The breach was caused when a free web-based email account used by the Burnett Practice to inform patients of upcoming smear tests appointments…
Child and Family Services of New Hampshire notifies 23 clients after files stolen from office
Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, a non-profit agency, recently notified 23 residents of New Hampshire after their client files were stolen from a secure area in the agency’s main office in Manchester. The files were stolen sometime between March 15 and March 18, and the theft was detected on March 19. Unfortunately, neither…
Updates to HHS's breach tool includes yet another Florida hospital whose patient data were stolen
An update to HHS’s breach tool this week adds 16 more incidents to their counter, although two of the entries appear to be for the same incident. Significantly, the list includes yet another Florida hospital report of theft of patient data, presumably for tax refund fraud or other fraud. In this case, though, it was not…