Category: Health Data

Prakash Sharma reports: A Malaysian hospital has been directed to pay a man RM150,000 for the breach of privacy. According to the arguments presented during judicial proceedings, it was informed by the man’s attorney that the hospital had shot letters to his family, friends and employers informing them that the man is HIV positive. Despite…

Paul Christian reports: Sensitive documents detailing addresses and home security pin numbers of vulnerable people were found in a gutter. The care worker rotas, owned by Plan Personnel, were discovered by a passer-by in a parking bay near shops in Dellsome Lane, Welham Green. The documents comprise three pages of 37 addresses of vulnerable people…

Officials have confirmed that personal information for 113 Beebe Medical Center patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in Florida. According to Beebe Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wally Hudson, the employee took home a financial statement with patients’ names and Medicare numbers, often the same as a social security number, with the intention of…

A follow-up to a breach reported on this blog in December 2010: The theft of a hospital laptop containing the details of more than 1500 patients could have been an inside job trust bosses have been told. The computer, stolen from Calderdale Royal Hospital, contained 1,569 patient records including names, dates of birth and addresses…

When I think about privacy breaches that can really do harm, I often think of information about mental health issues or sexually transmitted diseases. If the allegations in a NY lawsuit are proven, this is one of those nightmare cases where there are devastating effects of a willful breach by an insider. Jonathan Perlow reports:…