Category: Health Data

More is starting to come out about the Health  Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…

Elise Stolte reports: Two hundred thirty-three Covenant Health patient folders containing about 3,600 photos and two videos are on an unencrypted hard drive that has gone missing, said Patrick Dumelie, president and CEO, at a media event Monday morning. Dumelie stresses that the original files are safe and that while all of the files contain…

Not surprisingly, Health Net has now issued a press release concerning a breach disclosed in a press release by Connecticut’s Attorney General: Health Net, Inc. today announced that it is conducting an investigation into several server drives that are unaccounted for from its data center operation located in Rancho Cordova, Calif. This investigation follows notification…

Attorney General George Jepsen has asked Health Net for identity theft and credit protections for nearly 25,000 Connecticut residents because their medical and personal information may have been compromised in a nationwide data breach in early February. The health care company has acknowledged that nine unaccounted server drives in its Rancho Cordova, Calif. operations, contained…

This must be the month to sue major pharmaceutical chains for allegedly selling patient prescription information. First it was CVS. Now it’s Walgreen. Reuters Legal reports: A lawsuit filed in California this week accuses national drug-store chain Walgreen Co of unlawfully selling medical information gleaned from patient prescriptions, another front in the battle over personal…