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…
Category: Exposure
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…
Glassdoor email gaffe exposers users’ email addresses
So Glassdoor updated its terms of service, and dutifully notified its users by putting all their email addresses in the TO: field. Yeah, you read that right. And no one apparently noticed before hitting SEND. Leading to a second email later today: Dear Glassdoor User: Earlier today we inadvertently exposed your email address to other…
Ca: Government knew of Phoenix privacy breach issue more than a year ago
Aedan Helmer reports: The government encountered not one, but two privacy breaches with the problematic Phoenix pay system, and was aware of the issue more than a year ago, officials acknowledged Thursday. In an open letter to public servants posted online Thursday afternoon, Public Services and Procurement Canada deputy minister Marie Lemay said that in both…
Wyoming officials investigate medical office documents
It sounds like something broke down somewhere in the disposal of 96 boxes of medical office documents found in a dumpster, but it’s not yet clear who’s responsible. The Wyoming Board of Medicine reported Monday that medical office documents from College Hill Health Center have been retrieved but the board has not had a chance…