HHS added another batch of reports to its breach tool last week. Here are the ones I hadn’t known about already from either the media or reports to state attorneys general: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000″,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There doesn’t seem to be any media coverage of this breach,…
Category: Health Data
Patient information may have been breached after laptop stolen at Beth Israel Deaconess
Kay Lazar reports: Approximately 3,900 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center patients will be getting letters alerting them that some of their personal health information may have been breached after a physican’s personal laptop computer was stolen from a hospital office. The theft occurred May 22, hospital officials said Friday, and the stolen laptop, which contained…
Maine: DHHS mailing error exposes personal information
Leslie Bridgers reports: A glitch in the Department of Health and Human Services’ computer system exposed the personal information of public assistance applicants, including Social Security and bank account numbers. Information from 31 applications submitted online was sent out between December and June to 39 random addresses in the department’s system, said Dale Denno, director of…
Albert Gonzalez co-conspirator sentenced to 7 years in prison for Dave & Buster’s hack and other crimes
Aleksandr Suvorov, of Estonia, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison for his role in two separate hacking schemes involving a total of more than 240,000 stolen credit card numbers. Suvorov, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Suvorov was an accomplice to Albert Gonzalez, one of…
Dental practices feel some pain following breach by business partner
Both River Arch Dental and Hamner Square Dental sent patients a letter on July 16 about a breach that occurred when a business partner’s employee violated their security protocols: We are writing to inform you of the following incident and the steps we have taken and are taking to respond to it. On May 10,…
Louisville dental assistant copied medical records – Police
WDRB reports: Police say they’ve arrested a Louisville woman for copying the medical records of several patients of a dental office back in 2005. Police say Tanya Hubbard was working as a dental assistant in Dec. 26, 2005 (when she was 26) when she made copies of medical records belonging to 23 patients. According to…