The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is notifying about 2,700 people that their or their minor child’s electronic medical records were inappropriately accessed over a three-year period. The university said it has no indication that the private health information has been used for any unintended purposes. The breach was found Jan. 10…
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Brand New Day notifies 14,005 members after breach at vendor
From their press release of March 10: Universal Care, Inc. dba Brand New Day (BND) announced today that it has notified individuals related to a privacy incident involving information stored by a third-party vendor. The incident did not involve information that was stored or maintained on BND’s own systems. On December 28, 2016, BND learned…
Denton Heart Group notifies patients stolen hard drive held 7 years’ worth of PII/PHI
As seen on their site: Denton Heart Group (the “Clinic”), a member of HealthTexas Provider Network (HTPN) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On January 11, 2017, we learned that an external computer hard drive was stolen from…
BJC HealthCare Raising St. Louis Notifies Participants of Unencrypted Emails
As seen on their site: BJC HealthCare has notified 644 current and former Raising St. Louis participants that identifying information was shared between participating program partners through unencrypted emails. This is outside of established protocols and BJC sincerely regrets this error. However, no information related to Social Security numbers or other financial information was included…
CA: Tarleton Medical discloses breach involving protected health information
Note: the following notification is not from the health center at Tarleton State University, but from a family medicine practice in Rancho Mirage, California owned by Harold L. Tarleton, M.D. I am writing to inform you of a data security incident that may have affected your personal information. Tarleton Medical (“TM”) is committed to providing excellence in…
Veridian Credit Union sues Eddie Bauer for failing to prevent data breach
Matt Day reports that another retailer has been sued by financial institutions hoping to recover their costs of a breach. Veridian Credit Union filed suit, seeking class-action status, in Seattle federal court this week. The complaint alleges negligence on the retailer’s part and seeks to compensate financial institutions for costs related to reissuing stolen credit and…