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…
Category: Health Data
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center reports breach after virus exfiltrated SSN of 17 patients
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…
FL: Jackson Memorial Hospital employee accessed 1800 patients’ financial information
WSVN reports: Officials are investigating a South Florida hospital after personal patient information was accessed. Personal information from 1,800 patients were inappropriately accessed by employees at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Those patients whose personal information was accessed have been notified and offered free credit card fraud protection. JMH said they took quick action to address the…
FL: Jackson Memorial Hospital employees fired after patient information accessed (updated)
Officials are investigating a South Florida hospital after personal patient information was accessed. Personal information from 1,800 patients were inappropriately accessed by employees at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Those patients whose personal information was accessed have been notified and offered free credit card fraud protection. JMH said they took quick action to address the issue and…
Novo Nordisk pays $1.725 million to resolve claims that sales representatives paid pharmacists for access to confidential patient information and to recommend their medications
It’s been an expensive week for Novo Nordisk. How expensive, you ask? How about $26.7 million to settle two government investigations? The following is a press release on the New York investigation about marketing and patient privacy: Novo Nordisk, Inc. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it has…
Another grain of sand in the data breach dunes
It seems that reports of stolen or lost patient records are everywhere these days. Here’s a small item from the public records page of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette in Pennsylvania on June 9: LANCASTER — Someone stole items from a 1998 Saturn SCI belong to a home health aide parked in the 1200 block of…