According to its web site, Prima CARE, P.C. is a large, multi-specialty medical group serving southeastern New England. Also according to their web site, a former employee improperly discarded binders with protected health information. A notice linked from their home page explains: Prima CARE has Recovered Documents Containing Patient Information On June 4, 2015, Prima CARE…
Category: Exposure
AU: Sensis publishes hundreds of silent numbers online
Andrew Sadauskas reports: Sensis and Telstra are investigating a privacy breach that led to the publication of the unlisted phone numbers and addresses of at least 230 residential and business customers. At least 80 residential customers with unlisted numbers have had their phone numbers, addresses and, in some cases, part of their names published in…
AZ: Kingman resident finds DCS investigation documents in dumpster
Andrew Hasbun reports that a dumpster diver found documents from the Arizona Department of Child Safety. The documents, which were found in Kingman, not only contained personal information such as names and social security numbers, but they reportedly contained detailed descriptions of investigations. Hasbun reports: Some of the documents date back to 2012, a few of…
NZ: Investigation after doctors’ prescriptions strewn through neighbourhood
Jared Nicoll reports: An investigation is under way after piles of doctors’ prescriptions were found scattered through a Lower Hutt neighbourhood. Epuni St residents scraped up about 100 private prescriptions featuring patient’s names, addresses and medication from the road on Monday afternoon. They included a child’s asthma medication, and an elderly woman’s codeine prescription, issued…
Athletics roiled by mass doping allegations after blood test leak
Karolos Grohmann reports: Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organizations said on Sunday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret…
Files of 1,100 veterans thrown in dumpster at Hot Springs VA
Human error strikes the VA system again. Seth Tupper reports that someone at the VA Black Hills Health Care System mistakenly dumped a box containing 1,100 veterans’ files into a dumpster on May 15. The error occurred during an office move (a problem we’ve seen before in other cases). Thankfully, the employee’s error was caught…