Category: Health Data

Derek Spalding reports that lawsuit over a lost USB drive breach is brewing: Two heavyweight lawfirms out of Windsor and Toronto promise to launch a class-action lawsuit as early as next week against Montfort Hospital for its role in losing the personal information of 25,000 patients. Representatives from Sutts, Strosberg LLP and Falconer Charney LLP…

Updated to include details of the DentaQuest of Florida breach. HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. I did some digging to find details for the reports we did not know about already. Some of what I found was reported in Part 1, here.  The following were also included…

HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. Significantly, 6 of the 13 involved stolen laptops while 3 others involved theft or loss of electronic devices. Two of the 13 incidents were already known through either media coverage or reports to a state’s attorney general. In both cases, HHS’s breach…

Personally, I detest it when entities won’t disclose any many people were notified or affected by a breach. It’s one of the few times that I think the “nothing to hide” argument applies. When it comes to healthcare sector breaches affecting more than 500, refusal to disclose to the media makes even less sense to…

WSBTV reports: The FBI is investigating a dumpster full of medical documents that Channel 2’s Ross Cavitt found outside an office complex in Hiram. Cavitt called authorities after finding the documents full of people’s sensitive identification and medical information. The caller who gave Cavitt the tip said the documents were in the dumpster all weekend….

More information has been disclosed about data security breaches affecting patients at North Shore University Hospital – Long Island Jewish Hospital. In April 2012, we learned that there had seemingly been two separate incidents, one involving a nurse from Brooklyn. But it seems that there was a lot more data theft and misuse going on…