From Courthouse News: Two EMTs working for the City of Casa Grande took “inappropriate and salacious” photos of a woman suffering a grand mal seizure and published them with “offensive comments,” the woman claims in Pinal County Court, Ariz. A copy of the complaint is available on their site, here. The suit names the City…
Category: Health Data
Personal data accessed on Blue Cross website
Courtney Perkes reports: More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the company’s Web site. Only customers who had pending insurance applications in the system are being contacted because information was viewed through an on-line tool that…
Personal data accessed on Blue Cross website
Courtney Perkes reports: More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the company’s Web site. Only customers who had pending insurance applications in the system are being contacted because information was viewed through an on-line tool that…
Lawsuit filed over Our Lady of Peace breach
Erick Flack of WAVE reports that a lawsuit has been filed over the Our Lady of Peace breach. “The lawsuit accuses the hospital of negligence, invasion of privacy and emotional distress and asks for punitive damages.” Even though the breached information did not include Social Security Numbers, diagnosis, or treatment information, this is one of…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
WA: 8,000 patient records stolen from Family Care Center on Whidbey; identity theft feared
Jeff Vanderford If you are, or have ever been, a patient at the Family Care Center physical therapy clinic, call your bank. Right away. That’s the advice of owner Jim Christensen, after discovering that more than 8,000 of his patients’ names had been stolen during a burglary last weekend. The list includes patient accounts from…