As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…
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U. professor takes on hospital in Utah Medicaid breach
There are so many complaints and lawsuits following breaches that I long ago gave up on mentioning them all. But Kristen Stewart of the Salt Lake Tribune reports on one complaint that I found particularly interesting: When University of Utah health law professor Leslie Francis learned her name and Social Security number had been exposed in the…
Ca: 707 patient records breached at Roseway Hospital
CBC reports: More than 700 patients of the Roseway Hospital in Shelburne are receiving letters of apology after a privacy breach. A hospital employee — who has since been fired — inappropriately accessed the medical information of 707 patients through a work computer, said Fraser Mooney, a spokesman for South West Health. Mooney said the…
Troy woman charged in ID theft of 800 people
Matt Elofson has an update on a breach originally reported in July 2011: Federal agents recently arrested a Troy woman on felony charges for allegedly stealing the identities of 800 people while working at an area hospital as part of a government tax fraud scheme. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the…
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Patient Information Embedded in PowerPoint Uploaded to External Sites
Rashed Mian reports: An unknown number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients had clinical data and private information, in some cases their Social Security numbers, erroneously leaked onto two medical professional organization’s websites earlier this year, according to the hospital. After an inquiry by the Long Island Press Wednesday, the world’s oldest and largest cancer…
FL: Records stolen from Gressler Clinic
Ryan E. Little reports: Documents containing personal information from about 1,400 patients were stolen from Gessler Clinic in May, the clinic announced Tuesday. The clinic has been working with police since the May 3 disappearance of the documents and began notifying affected patients by mail this week. The stolen documents, which include Social Security numbers…