Hair Free Forever (HFF) appears to have suffered an insider-wrongdoing breach involving a now-former employee using patient information to solicit patients for another business. HFF’s notification letter suggests they are covered by HIPAA. The number of patients affected by the breach is not disclosed in the template notification letter submitted to the state attorney general’s office,…
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UK: Data breach at medical practice: Shock and disgust as 150 patients affected
Stuart Anderson reports: Patients are outraged after learning a staff member at a doctors’ practice had been inappropriately accessing their medical records. Holt Medical Practice has dismissed the employee and written to the roughly 150 patients affected to let them know about the breach and apologise. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is now investigating after…
UPDATED: Dignity Health units disclose breaches in Arizona, Nevada, and California affecting more than 60,000 patients
Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – Siena (2078 patients), and Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-DeLima (2174 patients). The incident involved the hospitals providing documentation to an unnamed local…
Privacy Commissioner says Avenue Living privacy breach poses a risk
Leah Murray reports that an insider breach at a property management firm resulted in dozens of tenants being notified that their information may have been stolen. The unauthorized access is believed to have occurred sometime between August 2016 and November 2016: A company that operates apartment buildings in several Alberta communities, including Lethbridge, Medicine Hat…
Coca-Cola notifying employees of insider breach (updated)
Coca-Cola is notifying employees that a former employee reportedly misappropriated their personal information. The number of employees or other individuals affected was not disclosed in the notification letter, but Coca-Cola reports that they learned of the breach on September 1, 2017 from law enforcement, who asked them to delay notification. Law enforcement recently gave Coca-Cola…
Data Leak May Have Affected Patients at Muir Medical Group IPA
NBC reports: Muir Medical Group patients who received treatment between November 2013 and February 2017 may have had their personal information shared without their consent, the company reported. The Walnut Creek-based firm discovered the leak on March 7 after a former employee took information with her before her employment ended, according to the company. This…