Greg Bordonaro reports: MidState Medical Center has begun sending letters to 93,500 patients whose personal information may have been compromised following the accidental loss of a computer hard drive, the hospital said in a letter to employees Tuesday. The misplaced hard drive, which has not yet been recovered, contains patient’s names, addresses, birthdates, social security…
Category: Health Data
Nurse allowed to resign in medical chart snooping case
Associated Press reports an update on the privacy breach at the U. of Iowa involving staff snooping on football players’ records: A nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics who allegedly accessed confidential medical records of a university football player has been allowed to resign rather than be fired. A legal agreement made…
UK: Cornwall health trust disclosed third-party personal data
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has acknowledged that breached the Data Protection Act on two occasions and has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office. According to a press release issued by the ICO today: The first breach happened in July 2010 when an individual received a response to a subject access request for information…
UK: ICO slaps Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS with Undertaking
From an undertaking posted to the ICO’s web on Friday without any companion release to indicate when the breach occurred or when it was reported to the ICO: The Information Commissioner (the “Commissioner”) was provided by the data controller with a report of the theft of an unencrypted laptop storing personal data. The laptop was…
Walgreens notifies customers of Epsilon database breach
Walgreens press release: Walgreens today announced Epsilon, a third-party vendor it uses to email promotional messages, reported an unauthorized access to its computer systems. Law enforcement authorities have been notified and are investigating the matter. Email addresses were the only information obtained in this incident. No other personally identifiable information is stored with Epsilon. Walgreens…
Adult Performers' Real Names, Addresses Posted on Wikileaks-Style Site
More on that very distressing privacy breach involving the publication of personally identifying information about adult porn actors. Buzz Killington writes: … It is an open secret within the industry that the website, Pornwikileaks.com, has published the real names and addresses of over 12,000 performers, opening them up to potential harassment by predators or others…