Remember when Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional Medical Center were fined by federal and state agencies for breaching patient privacy? They had willfully disclosed patient details to the media after the media had reported the patient’s complaint about them. At the time, I noted that just because a patient discloses information, that does not give the covered entity the…
Category: Exposure
MA: Records request yields heavily redacted letter sent to state Attorney General in wake of Amherst website data disclosure
An update to a previously noted breach. Scott Merzbach reports: A public records request by the Daily Hampshire Gazette seeking more information about the disclosure of residents’ personal information through the Amherst municipal website yielded a heavily redacted letter that collector and treasurer Claire McGinnis sent to state Attorney General Maura Healey, notifying her office…
Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails
Sam Thielman reports: The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails and suggestions that he had affairs despite earlier denials. “Effective today, Noel Biderman, in mutual agreement with the company, is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Avid Life Media Inc (ALM) and is no…
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology email gaffe exposes student info
AP reports: Officials at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology say an email that a university employee inadvertently sent to graduate students included an attachment with names, student identification numbers and grade point averages of about 350 students. Read more on Idaho Statesman.
Clayton Valley Charter attorney asks newspaper to return hacked files if obtained
Matthias Gafni has an update to a hack previously noted on this blog: An attorney for Clayton Valley Charter High School has shed new light on the extent of documents hacked from the school’s executive director. In an email sent Tuesday to reporters at this newspaper, attorney Paul Minney wrote that records obtained through a…
UCLA Health breach notification results in confusion, more breaches?
The massive breach at UCLA Health was bad enough, but now it looks like their breach notification resulted not only in confusion, but a second HIPAA privacy breach. Lisa Zamosky reports: Steve Reasner recently learned that because he is a patient at UCLA Health, his personal information may now be in the hands of criminals….