Category: Health Data

Will Jason reports: Patients at a Mill Valley medical office have been warned that credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised after a computer was stolen in a recent burglary. “Many of our patient’s (sic) personal data was stolen including credit card information,” Dr. Morgan Camp wrote in an email sent…

Kyle Clark reports: A nurse who worked at five or more hospitals in the Denver area faces 90 felony charges in a wide-ranging identity theft investigation, 9Wants to Know investigators have learned. Prosecutors suspect a registered nurse working at several hospitals through a nurse staffing agencies improperly accessed patient files to steal Social Security numbers…

Stephen Largen provides an update on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office are keeping many of the details of an ongoing investigation into a stolen laptop computer secret from the public. The laptop was reported stolen from an SRHS employee’s vehicle in late March…

Mike Sullivan reports on a huge data breach in the UK: A laptop holding the medical records of eight MILLION patients has gone missing. The computer vanished from an NHS building in the biggest-ever security breach of its kind. It went missing three weeks ago but has only just been reported to police. The unencrypted…

On May 23, the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that it had learned its computer system had become infected with a virus on April 19.   The center indicated that it had responded promptly in April to secure the system and that, at most, 17 individuals may have…