Category: Health Data

From the ICO: Wolverhampton City Council breached the Data Protection Act by allowing confidential personal information to be disposed of in a skip, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO first became aware of the breach in October 2010 when a local newspaper reported that council documents containing names, dates of birth, bank…

More is starting to come out about the Health  Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…

Elise Stolte reports: Two hundred thirty-three Covenant Health patient folders containing about 3,600 photos and two videos are on an unencrypted hard drive that has gone missing, said Patrick Dumelie, president and CEO, at a media event Monday morning. Dumelie stresses that the original files are safe and that while all of the files contain…

Not surprisingly, Health Net has now issued a press release concerning a breach disclosed in a press release by Connecticut’s Attorney General: Health Net, Inc. today announced that it is conducting an investigation into several server drives that are unaccounted for from its data center operation located in Rancho Cordova, Calif. This investigation follows notification…

Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Health Net for identity theft and credit protections for nearly 25,000 Connecticut residents because their medical and personal information may have been compromised in a nationwide data breach in early February. The health care company has acknowledged that nine unaccounted server drives in its Rancho Cordova, Calif. operations, contained…