Maureen Kocot reports: A good Samaritan says he was surprised when he discovered thousands of documents marked confidential in a dumpster. 10TV examined the documents and found medical records containing patients’ social security numbers, dates of birth, as well as detailed information about medical conditions and prescriptions. […] The Ohio Medical Board says it has…
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IL: Mailing error by contractor discloses ‘limited’ personal info of 3,000 Centegra patients
Stephen DiBenedetto reports: Medical bills detailing “limited” personal information of 3,000 Centegra Health System patients recently were sent to the wrong addresses because of a mailroom error at a third-party contractor, a Centegra spokeswoman said. The mailing error happened Nov. 2 at MedAssets, a Georgia-based vendor Centegra contracts, during routine maintenance. A setting on automatic…
Adele tickets: Fans claim personal data has been breached
BBC reports: Fans buying tickets for Adele’s tour have told the BBC they were shown the address and credit card details of customers other than themselves. Advance tickets were made available to members of Adele.com on Tuesday morning. But several fans said they were shown other people’s shopping baskets, including payment details, when they tried…
Triple-S Management Corporation Settles HHS Charges by Agreeing to $3.5 Million HIPAA Settlement
Congratulations. You’re on one of the few sites that reported on some concerning breaches in the healthcare sector involving Triple-S, a licensee of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Puerto Rico. I first reported on them in 2010, including the $100K fine they were handed, and then I reported on them twice in 2014, including when they were handed a $6.4M…
GA: Hundreds of DeKalb teachers’ personal information exposed
Keith Whitney reports: Just one day after that massive data leak from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office there was yet another one. This one involved hundreds of teachers from the DeKalb County School System. The breach was part of a mass email that was sent out to the system’s special education teachers. But somehow,…
‘We complained to Santander CEO of data breach – and were sent documents of three other customers’
Nicole Blackmore reports: Santander has been labelled “incompetent” after a string of errors that saw it lose a couple’s mortgage documents and instead send them letters containing four different customers’ private information in a “gross breach” of data protection laws. Read more on The Telegraph.