Marie McCullough reports: The Crozer-Keystone Health System revealed Friday that about 900 bariatric-surgery patients’ privacy was breached because of an email error. According to the health system, an employee sent an email June 20 to let bariatric-surgery program patients know about a support group. The email addresses were inadvertently placed in the “cc” or carbon-copy…
Category: Exposure
NY: St. Peter’s gave me other people’s medical records: patient
St. Peter’s Health Partners is looking into a possible confidentiality violation after a man picked up his family’s records at the recently closed Altamont Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and discovered he also received other patients’ medical records. Read more on Albany Times Union.
Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason
Zeynep Tufekci writes: Just days after a bloody coup attempt shook Turkey, Wikileaks dumped some 300,000 emails they chose to call “Erdogan emails.” In response, Turkey’s internet governance body swiftly blocked access to Wikileaks. For many, blocking Wikileaks was confirmation that the emails were damaging to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the government, revealing…
Fired after NFL player’s medical chart leaked to ESPN, worker sues
There’s an update to the case involving the breach of Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical information. Daniel Chang reports: A secretary fired from Jackson Health System on grounds she breached the privacy of New York Giants’ player Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical records has sued Miami-Dade’s public hospital network, denying she accessed the private information and saying her former…
UK: NHS apologises for sending vital patient information to WRONG GPs for five years
Patrick Christys reports: The NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) should have redirected test results and treatment advice which was sent to the wrong family doctors across swathed of Britain, but it failed to do so. The Government refused to say how many patients were affected by the gaffe, which ran from 2011 until earlier this…
UK: Wolverhampton council in huge data leak blunder
In 2011, the Information Commissioner’s Office had the Wolverhampton council sign an undertaking to improve data protection. In 2014, the ICO ordered the council to improve data protection. And now in July, 2016, we read this: A report from the Information Commissioner’s Office said payroll information relating to 9,858 workers had been disclosed to a ‘third…