A statement from the Hawaii Department of Health: For Immediate Release: October 25, 2012 12-052 POSSIBLE SECURITY BREACH AT WAIPAHU ALOHA CLUBHOUSE Department of Health advises consumers to take precautionary action against identity theft HONOLULU — The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH) is notifying members of the Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse of a possible security…
Category: Health Data
L.A. Care Health Plan notifies members after mailing gaffe
L.A. Care Health Plan notified members of a breach. In an undated letter, they write: L.A. Care is serious about member privacy. We are sending you this letter to make sure that you are aware of an accidental mailing error involving member identification (ID) cards. On September 18, 2012, L.A. Care learned that some member…
Dentist informs patients whose medical and insurance information was on stolen computer
Philip P. Corneliuson, DDS, of Fresno, California sent his patients the following notice on October 8: SUBJECT: IMPORTANT – Notification of Data Security Breach Dear Patient, On the afternoon of Saturday , September 15th 2012, we discovered our office suite broken into and our computer stolen. The computer stored both medical records and insurance information,…
Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2012 – what did they find in the health care sector?
The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2012 (for 2011 data) is out, and although their methodology and sample does not include all the breaches that get reported to HHS or on DataLossDB.org, I thought their findings on the health care sector interesting. From their press release, here’s their overview of major findings: Health Care Most…
Update to Florida Hospital breach
Jason Geary reports that a former employee of Florida Hospital has pleaded guilty to accessing and selling patient information as part of a referral scheme. Read more on The Ledger.
Monroeville official says UPMC, town broke health privacy law
Jonathan D. Silver reports: Monroeville’s assistant police chief has filed a complaint alleging that his own municipality, UPMC and the department’s former chief breached a federal privacy law governing release of medical information. […] The complaint, filed in August by Assistant Chief Steven Pascarella, claims that information about ambulance dispatches was being sent not only…