There was no press release or fanfare, but the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office web site indicates that Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has signed an undertaking with the ICO over the loss of an individual’s medical records. According to the undertaking: The personal data was recognised as missing when the data controller received a subject…
Category: Health Data
Beth Israel reports potential data breach (update2)
Hiawatha Bray reports: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is notifying more than 2,000 of its patients that some of their personal information may have been stolen from a hospital computer. The hospital said today that an unnamed computer service vendor had failed to restore proper security settings on the computer after performing maintenance on it….
Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval
If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010. Then they settled…
Settlement of yet another lawsuit against WellPoint /Anthem Blue Cross gets preliminary approval
If you feel like you need a scorecard to keep track of lawsuits against WellPoint or settlements involving WellPoint, it’s understandable. WellPoint recently settled a lawsuit by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office over delayed notification following a breach that occurred in 2009 and continued until after a customer notified them twice in 2010. Then they settled…
Finland: Patient records illegally accessed at Helsinki hospital
Yle Etela-Karjala reports: Haartman hospital in Helsinki has uncovered the theft of hundreds of patients’ medical records. A temporary secretary at the hospital gained unauthorised access to the electronic records of nearly two hundred patients. […] Haatrman hospital employed the worker for four months in the spring of 2010. When the data protection breaches were…
GA: Personal Info Stolen From Patients At DeKalb Medical
WSBTV reports: The United States Secret Service said it is investigating how the personal information of patients at the DeKalb Medical’s Hillandale facility was stolen. The data involves patients seen at the hospital between July and October 2010. The secret service said the case was similar to others in Georgia and Alabama. They said the…