HIPAA Journal has an update to a situation I had previously noted on this site – a hospital that failed to remove stored medical records from a building before its new owner took possession – despite, the new owner says, repeated calls on his and a realtor’s part alerting them to the situation. The hospital attempted…
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FL: Personal documents, SSN found in dumpster behind Orlando law firms
WFTV reports: Several local law firms could be in hot water for dumping sensitive information containing client information into a dumpster. Law firms are supposed to shred or burn the information, officials said, but piles of sensitive documents, including bank account information, were in plain sight. Unfortunately, they don’t report the names of the law…
United Recovery Group notifying patients of HIPAA privacy breach (updated)
Florida-based Unity Recovery Group is notifying patients of a HIPAA breach that involved disclosure of their protected healthy information to providers outside their network without prior written consent. The breach apparently began in April 2014 and continued for a full year, until it was discovered in April of this year, as their letter explains: We…
Ca: City of Oshawa reports privacy breach after 1,000 recreation user e-mail addresses released
Oshawa This Week reports: Oshawa officials are reporting a privacy breach in the recreation and culture department after a list of e-mail addresses was accidentally released. The breach affects people who authorized the City to contact them and also participated in a 2015 fitness program or registered for aquatics such as swim lessons in 2015….
Florida releases personal data on 13,000 people, issues ‘fraud’ alert
Steve Bousquet reports: For the second time in two months, Gov. Rick Scott’s administration has acknowledged it inadvertently released confidential personal data of private citizens, prompting the state to offer free credit monitoring services to protect people from being victims of identity theft. The Department of State said it released names, dates of birth and…
mSpy and Adult Friend Finder Breaches a Boon to Extortionists
Brian Krebs reports: The recent breaches involving the leak of personal data on millions of customers at online hookup site Adult Friend Finder and mobile spyware maker mSpy give extortionists and blackmailers plenty of ammunition with which to ply their trade. And there is some evidence that ne’er-do-wells are actively trading this data and planning to abuse it for…