The public list of breaches reported to HHS under the HITECH Act was updated to add two entries. Both entries are associated with the same business associate: MSO of Puerto Rico. I do not see anything on the web sites of the covered entities or the business associate about the incident nor did I see…
Category: U.S.
Shands notifies individuals of information breach
Shands Healthcare has now revealed more details on the breach mentioned last week. In a press release on their web site, they write: Shands HealthCare officials have notified about 12,500 individuals that a Shands-owned laptop computer containing their health and other personal information was stolen last month. The laptop held information about Shands patients and…
Arkansas Guard alerting soldiers of data loss
Stuttgart, Ark. — CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON – An unsecure hard drive containing personally identifiable information on a currently unknown number of current and former Arkansas National Guard Soldiers was reported missing on February 22. An Arkansas Guard Soldier reported the loss after conducting an exhaustive search to locate the drive when it was first…
21 more business sector breaches from 2009 (update 2)
Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update. The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010. Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the…
And yet 2 more breaches
Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update. The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010. Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the…
4 more healthcare breaches from 2009
Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update. The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009. Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the time, but I spotted a number of previously unknown breaches …