An NHS trust has done it again – losing 800 confidential patient records on an unencrypted memory stick. The Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust patient records were lost in September 2010. Shockingly, the details were on an unencrypted memory stick and worse, the 800 affected patients were never told. Leaked details include full name, date…
Category: Health Data
AU: Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud
There’s nothing really new here, but it’s a useful reminder. Natalie O’Brien reports: Criminal networks are feeding off Australians’ lust for new technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia – and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft. They will pay as much as $200 on the black market for…
Medical, personal information for 500 employees stolen from a home
Erin L. Nissley reports that personal and medical information for approximately 500 Penn Foster employees was stolen from the home of an unnamed business associate of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The business associate’s name will be public information when the breach is posted on HHS’s breach tool, but for now, here’s what we know…
Update on the Florida Hospital breach
The Orlando Sentinel has updated its reporting on the Florida Hospital breach. You can read their coverage here, but among the new details revealed are that 2,252 patients are affected and that the purpose of the improper access seemed to be to identify car accident victims whose contact details could then be passed to an…
Florida Hospital privacy breach: Workers accessed ER patient information
David Breen reports: Florida Hospital has admitted — in a newspaper advertisement — that its employees improperly accessed patient information at emergency departments in three Central Florida counties during a 20-month period ending in August. Law enforcement has been contacted and investigators are reviewing what happened in what was described as an ‘inappropriate access” of…
Confirmed: the SAIC/TRICARE breach was due to theft of tapes left in an unattended vehicle
Sig Christensen has the confirmation for my hunch that the SAIC breach involved theft and not just loss of the backup tapes: Science Applications International Corp., a Pentagon contractor, said Thursday the worker had been given the job of taking the tapes from one federal facility to another when they were stolen. A San Antonio police report…