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Nyack Hospital employees warned after sensitive data stolen

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dissent

Jane Lerner reports: Former and current Nyack Hospital employees, as well as their spouses and children, are at risk of identity theft because a computer hard drive containing personal information was stolen from the hospital, officials said. Sensitive data, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, were stored on a hard drive…

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GA: Patient Records Found in Old Pain Clinic Building

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dissent

Jennifer Griffies reports: A pain clinic in Alpharetta has closed, but not before leaving behind the personal information of many its patients. Alpharetta Police Officer George Gordon says the owner of the now vacant building found the documents. “Discovered literally, just hundreds of files of medical information from former patients of these physicians,” said Gordon….

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(follow-up) BCBS of Tenn. Encrypts All Stored Data

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dissent

After BCBS of Tennessee had that horribly time-consuming and costly breach involving 57 tapes with oodles of personal and protected health information that they had to wade through, they apparently learned their lesson.  Howard Anderson writes: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which experienced a health information breach affecting nearly 1 million individuals in 2009, has completed the encryption of all…

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Molina Medicare enrollees notified of RxAmerica mailing error that disclosed PHI

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Dissent

Last month, I reported that RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance were notifying 175,000 Medicare beneficiaries that a mailing error exposed their medication name, date of birth, and member ID. It seems that Molina Medicare enrollees were also affected. A notice on their home page says: Attention current or former members of Molina Medicare, Healthy Advantage HMO…

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Did hackers beat FBI to the punch? PornWikiLeaks Shuts Down: XXX Industry Worked With … FBI, AIDS Group Against Website That Leaked Porn Stars' Personal Info?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Dennis Romero reports an update to a privacy breach involving the posting of porn actors’ personal and medical information – a breach that I’ve covered on this blog in the past: ?Here’s a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from…

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CT: Hospital Staffer Texted Photo Of Murdered Teen

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Dissent

Thomas MacMillan reports: After 17-year-old Travis Washington died in the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Emergency Room, a hospital clinician present took out a cell phone, snapped a picture of his gunshot wound and sent it off for others to look at. In the wake of that incident, the hospital has fired three employees. A distraught…

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