Category: Health Data

An investigation has been launched after confidential hospital patient documents were discovered in a bin. The information — which contained names, ages and medical history of patients at The Royal Bolton Hospital— was found in a bin outside McDonald’s in Derby Street, Bolton, on Monday, by a diner at the restaurant. The document contained the…

Would you want your records exposed this way? Even if you’re not worried about identity theft or employment discrimination, would you want others knowing such sensitive information>? Martin Bagot reports: Police are investigating after confidential medical records were found by a member of the public in Coventry. He reported finding the highly sensitive documents dumped…

Richard Craver reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Wednesday that it has fired an employee who had boxes of medical records and documents in a home she owns. Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement, did not identify the employee. According to Forsyth County tax records, the home is owned by Linda-Carolyn Bowden Turner, who could not be…

Mike Keegan provides an update on a breach mentioned yesterday on this blog: A cash-for-claims agent whose nurse partner was found unconscious at the side of her murdered daughter has been fined after he admitted taking confidential patient data from her. Martin Campbell, 31, obtained names and telephones of visitors to Moorgate Primary Care walk-in…

As a small update to my breach entry of May 19,  it seems that Delta Dental notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident.  In a letter from their lawyers dated May 16, Delta Dental states that they first became aware of the loss from an “unrelated third party” on February 24, and that…