Eric Van Susteren reports: A computer containing medical records and personal information for approximately 2,500 patients was stolen from a Stanford physician’s locked office sometime between July 15 and 16, according to Stanford University Medical Center. The computer, which may also have held some patient social security numbers, was outfitted with software that would detect…
Category: Health Data
More breaches you may not have known about
The newest additions to HHS’s breach tool reveals more breaches I hadn’t known about previously: Wolf & Yun in Kentucky reported that 824 patients were affected by a laptop theft on April 24th. A public notice on the breach posted in the Courier-Journal on July 20 explains: Public Notice Information on the limited theft of…
More transparency needed in Health Authority insider breaches
CBC News reports: Health authorities in Labrador and central Newfoundland acknowledge they have disciplined workers for previously-unreported privacy breaches. Last year, Central Health admitted to a serious breach of privacy involving 19 patients. The employee responsible was fired. Since then, the board has not publicly reported any other breaches — until being asked by CBC…
Another privacy breach in Newfoundland
More than 1,000 patients in western Newfoundland have had their privacy violated after an employee inappropriately accessed their personal records, a provincial health board said Wednesday. Western Health said it fired the employee after discovering that 1,043 people had their privacy breached. “Western Health would like to apologize to each patient who has had their…
OHSU says data about some patients and employees stolen in a home burglary
Crossposted from PHIprivacy.net: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital officials have posted a notice on their web site. While most of the notice concerns patient information, it appears that almost 200 employees had their Social Security Numbers on the stolen USB drive. OHSU has set up a toll free number to respond to patient questions. Information stored…
UK: Medical notes are found in Bournemouth street
Stephen Bailey reports that stolen records with children’s sensitive information were found blowing around the road: “It had information about their jobs, when their nappies need changing, names of people looking after them. The records had reportedly been stolen: A lady, who declined to give her surname, phoned to say the documents were taken from…