In addition to the breaches that we already know about from the media, I periodically scan OCR’s list of reported breaches to see what we didn’t know about. Here are two other breaches that I posted to PHIprivacy.net, but that also belong here because they involve SSN and not just healthcare information: Pediatric Sports and…
Category: Theft
Coincidence or….?
A glance at NYS’s Consumer Protection breach log for May shows that the state received 12 notifications yesterday — and all of them were hacking incidents. Twelve received in one day? Only one of them has been reported on this site previously (Monoprice). The numbers indicate the reported number of NYS residents affected: 05/06/2010 –…
Stolen Millennium Medical Management Resources drive contained PII and PHI on 180,111
Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech (sic). Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company…
[CORRECTION] Stolen computer from St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare affects 22,012
One that I missed from OCR’s web site during my last update from that site: St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare State: California Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 22,012 Date of Breach: 3/06/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Desktop Computer Thanks to ITRC for pointing out my omission. As of the date of this…
Stolen Praxair Healthcare computer contained client data
Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has posted the following notice on their web site: Praxair Healthcare Services, Inc. (Home Care Supply in New York) has notified certain clients of the theft of a company computer whose hard drive contained certain client names and other personal or health-related information. There is…
Famous Dave’s employee data stolen (update 2)
Here we go again…. another seemingly avoidable data theft. A Minnetonka-based employee of Famous Dave’s left some baggage in the car of a companion, including a work-related laptop computer containing a report with unencrypted employee information. As Famous Dave’s reported to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by letter on April 16, the laptop was…