After BCBS of Tennessee had that horribly time-consuming and costly breach involving 57 tapes with oodles of personal and protected health information that they had to wade through, they apparently learned their lesson. Howard Anderson writes: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which experienced a health information breach affecting nearly 1 million individuals in 2009, has completed the encryption of all…
Category: Health Data
Molina Medicare enrollees notified of RxAmerica mailing error that disclosed PHI
Last month, I reported that RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance were notifying 175,000 Medicare beneficiaries that a mailing error exposed their medication name, date of birth, and member ID. It seems that Molina Medicare enrollees were also affected. A notice on their home page says: Attention current or former members of Molina Medicare, Healthy Advantage HMO…
Did hackers beat FBI to the punch? PornWikiLeaks Shuts Down: XXX Industry Worked With … FBI, AIDS Group Against Website That Leaked Porn Stars' Personal Info?
Dennis Romero reports an update to a privacy breach involving the posting of porn actors’ personal and medical information – a breach that I’ve covered on this blog in the past: ?Here’s a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from…
CT: Hospital Staffer Texted Photo Of Murdered Teen
Thomas MacMillan reports: After 17-year-old Travis Washington died in the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Emergency Room, a hospital clinician present took out a cell phone, snapped a picture of his gunshot wound and sent it off for others to look at. In the wake of that incident, the hospital has fired three employees. A distraught…
Ca: Commissioner Cavoukian investigating the loss of Ontarians' cancer screening information
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is investigating a privacy breach involving the personal health information of 6,490 Ontarians involved in a Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) screening program. CCO announced that the delivery of 15 Screening Activity Reports related to its ColonCancerCheck program cannot be confirmed. The delivery status of an additional 11 reports…
(Update) Hospital: No evidence of patient data breach
Evelyn King reports: The country’s busiest hospital has said it has no evidence that any patient information has been accessed or disclosed without authorisation. Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, who issued a statement last night, said it had notified the Data Protection Commissioner’s office about unsubstantiated allegations about unauthorised disclosure of personal data and the steps…