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NC: Wake Forest Baptist medical records found in rental home owned by employee

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Ex-partner of nurse suspected in murder of Chloe Makin pleads guilty to stealing cash-for-claims data (updated)

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Delta Dental/The Smile Center breach report

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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UK: 189 patients at NHS Bury notified of data breach

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dissent

The details of 189 NHS walk-in centre patients could have been leaked as part of a data breach linked to a worker whose daughter was recently killed. NHS Bury has written to the patients to warn them their records could have been passed on to third parties. The source was said to be Dawn Makin,…

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Case study from Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner reveals need for ethics review in research recruitment to protect privacy

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Dissent

Over on DataBreaches.net, I mentioned a previously unknown (to me) breach that was revealed in Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner’s 2010 Annual Report. Another incident that the report included involved a medical privacy complaint. At pp. 82-83: Case study 17: Inappropriate disclosure of medical research data In March 2010 we were contacted by a lady who…

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IL: Medical center employee sentenced to 8 years for ID thefts

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dissent

Mary Shenk reports: Patricia Castor of Mahomet fought back tears as she told a judge how her late mother lived in fear after her wallet was stolen by an employee of an Urbana hospital where she was a patient. […] The wallet and identity thief was Karen Dooley, 30, of Champaign, a “transporter” for Provena Covenant…

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