Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor who left patient details on the street. The papers contained the personal details of 173 transplant patients beside a container for recycling paper. It appears the papers were kept at the persons home, although they no longer worked at the hospital. T he person ivolved…
Category: Breach Incidents
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As an update to a story previously reported, John B. Spencer III, and Donald E. Stoner, both of Lancaster have pleaded guilty to an ID theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Pennsylvania by using information provided in their publicly available court records. A grand jury has indicted five men and…
WA: Fraud ‘hits’ follow local data breach (updated)
As an update on a story posted here yesterday, Howard Buck reports that over 3,000 employees were affected by the breach of Vancouver Public Schools, and that: Already, several Vancouver district employees have reported “hits” of suspicious personal banking account activity after their financial institutions were alerted to possible fraud, by the district or by…
Indian outsourcing boss arrested for selling medical records
From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…
Stolen Laptop Contained Social Security Numbers of Students & Alumni
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is notifying current and former students who were enrolled in psychology professor Julie Kontos’ classes from spring 2004 through the summer of 2006 about the possible loss of their social security numbers when a laptop was stolen from a campus office. […] “We have identified and are in the process of…
MD: Possible identity theft reported at Mercy
Brent Jones reports: Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office. The hospital’s vice president for corporate compliance sent a letter to the affected former patients on Monday, saying that a former…