Three unencrypted computer backup tapes containing patient billing and employee payroll data have been reported missing from a Nemours facility in Wilmington, Delaware. The tapes were stored in a locked cabinet following a computer systems conversion completed in 2004. The tapes and locked cabinet were reported missing on September 8, 2011 and are believed to…
Category: Health Data
Former Wake Forest Baptist Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Medical Documents
Michael Hewlett reports: A former employee of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, who has been called a “hoarder” by her attorney, pleaded guilty this morning to a charge that she took medical documents. Linda Bowden Turner, 55, pleaded guilty to one felony count of larceny by employee this morning in Forsyth District Court. Read more…
IU addresses information breach at School of Optometry
The Indiana University School of Optometry has notified 757 patients that a computer server on which certain health information was stored was visible on the Internet for almost a month, between August and September 2011. The server, containing information relating to patients seen by a former faculty member of the school, Kevin E. Houston, O.D.,…
Some days, I pull my hair out, Thursday edition
Everywhere I look, there are data breaches that I would want to include in DataLossDB.org’s database. But as I backfill the database to include incidents reported on my blogs that were never in the database, my research stumbles over tons of other breaches that should also be included. Rather than getting closer and closer to…
UK: Details of 'care-in-the-home' patients found in car park
Chris Caulfield reports: Personal details of 50 home care patients, including keycode access to many of their doors, were left lying in a school car park before being found and handed in to the Herald & News. Among the patients was a Member of the British Empire while all those on the list lived in…
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps
The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing. Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent…