Via BayToday.ca, a North Bay Regional Health Centre News Release: A breach of privacy relating to personal health information has occurred at the North Bay Regional Health Centre affecting roughly 5,800 patients. “Any information collected during a stay at the hospital is considered personal health information,” says Chief Privacy Officer, Marc Bouchard. “For example it…
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UK: Breaches at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS and London Ambulance Service result in undertakings
A press release from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals two privacy breaches resulting in agreements to take remedial and proactive steps. The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients. The information was lost after a…
Santa Clara dental worker steals patient info, lands in prison
Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at least…
Santa Clara dental worker steals patient info, lands in prison
Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at…
OH: Candidate for world's dumbest criminal pleads guilty to attempting to extort Xavier University
It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on DataBreaches.net. It was not originally covered here because until now, there was no indication…
WA: Medical clerk who stole patient IDs gets 5 years
Carol M. Ostrom reports: A medical-office billing clerk who stole patient information and prescription pads to get thousands of dollars’ worth of narcotic prescription drugs to sell was sentenced to five years in prison by a federal court judge Thursday. For the scam, Alyce Burrell, 28, of Seattle, often brought along her two children when…