From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a penalty of £60,000 to St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London after a vulnerable individual’s sensitive medical details were sent to the wrong address. The information was contained in two letters that were sent out by the Trust in May 2011. While the letters were…
Category: Health Data
Palm Springs doctor admits to identity theft, forgery again
I had covered a previous case involving Lisa Michele Barden, M.D. Sadly, she’s back in the news again with yet more problems with ID theft to obtain painkillers. Erik Sandoval reports: A former doctor with a laundry list of convictions for identity theft and forgery connected to a years-long addiction to painkillers pleaded guilty Tuesday…
Update: Investigation into St. Joseph data breach continues
From the Napa Valley Register: Queen of the Valley Medical Center remains under investigation by the California Department of Public Health following last year’s patient data breach. The data breach became publicly known this past April, when a class action lawsuit was filed in Sonoma County against St. Joseph Health System, operator of Queen of…
CT: Update – Attorney General's investigation into MidState data breach over
Jesse Buchanan reports: State Attorney General George Jepson has ended an investigation into last year’s data breach at MidState Medical Center and hasn’t called for any further action. MidState informed the public in April of last year that 93,500 patients’ files were downloaded onto a hard drive at Hartford Hospital by an employee who took…
NC: Judge orders political consultant to destroy all patient records obtained from candidate's office during campaign
An update to a case previously mentioned on this blog. Jordan Green reports: A Winston-Salem dentist who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress earlier this year went to court today to try to mitigate the damage of confidential patient information allegedly released to a political consultant whom he fired a couple weeks before the primary….
Ca: BCIT warns medical database security breached
From CBC News: BCIT [British Columbia Institute of Technology] has issued a warning to students and staff after one of its computers servers containing the personal medical records of more than 12,680 students was hacked. The Vancouver-area post-secondary school says a regular security audit determined an unauthorized third party accessed the server used by the…