Capstone Dental Center, PC (dba Arnerident Dental Associates) recently notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an email address for one doctor was typed incorrectly. As a result, attachments containing unencrypted dental information and the Social Security number of one patient were sent to the email address of a dairy farmer located in…
Category: Exposure
IL: Confidential CPS Documents Found Dumped in Alley
Erin Mendez and Sean Leidigh of WGNTV report: Years of CPS [Chicago Public Schools] student’s confidential, sealed records somehow made their way to a Lakeview alley early this morning. “I came upon my dumpster, totally filled. See this box? Sped –special education records..Lakeview,” said Art Kuesel, who found the documents behind his home. Inside, he…
OK: Medical files found in a dumpster
Meg Alexander of KFOR in Oklahoma reports that hundreds of medical files containing Social Security number and medical records from the office of from Dr. David Cavallaro, a podiatrist, were found in a dumpster. Oklahoma reportedly has no law governing disposal of medical files. Now if there was a national data protection law that required…
Students’ Social Security Nos. Found In Dumpster
KYPost.com reports that a four-page list with more than 140 Warren County Virtual school students’ names, addresses, birth dates, and social security numbers was found in a recycling dumpster. The school is investigating the breach.
Ca: Investigation underway into medical files dumped in downtown dumpster
Liza Yuzda of iNews 880 AM reports that the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is launching an investigation after a resident near the Royal Alex found medical records blowing in the wind.
MI: State settles lawsuit with psychiatrist
In a case that started in 2007 with medical records being burned on a farm, the Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Department of Community Health has settled a civil lawsuit against Southfield psychiatrist Dr. Soon Kim and Quality Health Plan Inc. for improperly disposing medical records from Greater Detroit Hospital in Detroit. Under the…