The Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced that during a system upgrade to appointment scheduling software for clients of a program administered by the Department of Public Health, information intended for regional offices was inadvertently sent to an undetermined number of email addresses in the state. The Department of Public Health and Department…
Category: Health Data
Mountain Vista Medical Center notifies 2,284 endoscopy patients of missing records
A few mainstream media news organizations such as Arizona Republic and KPHO are reporting a breach involving Mountain Vista Medical Center in Mesa, AZ. A notice posted to the medical center’s site dated December 10 says: On October 13, 2010, Mountain Vista Medical Center became aware that compact memory data cards containing information related to procedures occurring January…
Ca: Veteran 'shocked' after receiving medical records of other military members
Alison Auld of The Canadian Press reports: The Department of Defence has launched an investigation after a former member of the Canadian Forces found sensitive health and personal information about other military personnel in his medical file. Wayne Finn said he was stunned to discover everything from other service members’ social insurance numbers, blood test…
(update) GAA details stolen in data breach
As a small update to the GAA breach reported yesterday, News Letter reports that an arrest has been made: Personal details of more than 500 GAA members have been stolen. One man was arrested followed the security breach at Belfast company Servasport, which held the database. The information taken includes postal and email addresses, phone…
SWIRCA laptop computer stolen
The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…
Five newly revealed breaches on HHS's web site
With its most recent update, the HHS breach tool site added nine breach reports. We knew about some of them already (the Oklahoma City VA incident, the Triple-Salud breach in Puerto Rico that had been reported by the Puerto Rico Dept. of Health, and the University of Tennessee Medical Center incident), but some of them…