Oops! It seems I missed another Blue Cross Blue Shield mailing error data breach. It’s understandable, I suppose, since there have been a bunch of Blue Cross breaches in the past few months, but thanks to the good folks at ITRC for alerting me to the omission. Here’s Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida’s statement…
Category: Health Data
Canadian data breach causes Durham residents to 'not be another victim'
A follow-up to a breach first reported in December 2009. Dan Raywood writes: With every data breach there is a victim. While it may often ‘just’ be a username, password or email address that is leaked, someone is bound to be affected. The announcement of a potential compromise of data could scare some more than…
TN: Laptop with more than 1,500 patients' data stolen
Chris Echegaray reports: A laptop containing more than 1,500 patient names and their personal information was stolen from a medical billing company employee’s car last month. PhyData LLC, a medical billing and management company in Goodlettsville, reported the laptop stolen from the trunk of the worker’s vehicle at RiverGate Mall on May 7, said Joy…
Woman charged with stealing information of 4,000 Trinity patients
Melynda Sides reports: A 26-year-old woman from Alabaster has been charged with stealing information from thousands of patients at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Chelsea Catherine Stewart for stealing identifying information from more than 4,000 patients, possessing stolen mail, attempting to commit bank fraud, misusing a Social Security number…
Man’s ‘horror’ at NHS web privacy leak
Rhianne Pope reports: A jobseeker has said he is “horrified” after logging on to an NHS job site and seeing other people’s data. The 62-year-old from Bicester, who wished to remain anonymous, said he visited Jobs.nhs.uk to look for a new maintenance job. But after registering his name on the site last Monday, he realised…
In: Leaking health information may land you in prison
PTI reports: Leaking information on the health of an individual may earn a term in prison for six months and also a fine up to Rs one lakh. According to the new Privacy Bill, 2011, which is slated to be tabled in Parliament during the forthcoming session, any health information of any citizen of India…