Category: Health Data

A press release from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals two privacy breaches resulting in agreements to take remedial and proactive steps. The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients. The information was lost after a…

Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at…

It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them.  Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on DataBreaches.net.  It was not originally covered here because until now, there was no indication…

Carol M. Ostrom reports: A medical-office billing clerk who stole patient information and prescription pads to get thousands of dollars’ worth of narcotic prescription drugs to sell was sentenced to five years in prison by a federal court judge Thursday. For the scam, Alyce Burrell, 28, of Seattle, often brought along her two children when…

Adam Morris reports: The personal details of more than 100 patients were stolen from accident and emergency at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, it has emerged. The documents contained personal details of 106 patients, including names, addresses, GP contacts and dates of birth, and were understood to have been lifted from a reception desk. Some files…