Emily Bregel reports: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has wrapped up its assessment of customer data that was stolen in an October 2009 robbery of its abandoned Eastgate Town Center office. The state’s largest health insurer has concluded that nearly 1 million BlueCross members were affected by the theft, the same number stated in an earlier…
Category: Health Data
UnitedHealthcare mails out wrong customer summaries
Jennifer DeWitt reports: UnitedHealthcare has notified more than 1,000 members of a Deere & Co. employee benefit plan that 2009 claims summary statements were inadvertently sent to the wrong members last month. The insurance provider said the isolated database error affected 1,097 members in a single mailing. The summary statements included costs, dates of service,…
Prince William County: Stolen Blackberry Contained Protected Health Information of 669 County Residents
Overnight, between June 18 and June 19, 2010, a Prince William County employee with the Intellectual Disabilities Case Management (IDCM) Program had a government-issued Blackberry stolen from the employee’s locked vehicle, which was parked in the driveway of the employee’s home. Saved onto the Blackberry’s hard drive along with some case files was the full…
CA: Barstow dentist’s patients could be at risk of ID theft
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials are warning that patients of Dr. Thomas K. Lee’s dental office are at risk of having their personal information compromised. A tipster called the Sheriff’s Department on July 14 to advise deputies that boxes containing hundreds of personal records were left outside of Lee’s office. The dentist’s office is at…
CA: Barstow dentist's patients could be at risk of ID theft
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials are warning that patients of Dr. Thomas K. Lee’s dental office are at risk of having their personal information compromised. A tipster called the Sheriff’s Department on July 14 to advise deputies that boxes containing hundreds of personal records were left outside of Lee’s office. The dentist’s office is at…
New HHS/OCR site provides additional details
It seems that in some cases, more details about breaches are being provided on HHS’s breach list in the way of summaries. To update some previously reported breaches (links are to prior PHIprivacy.net coverage of the breaches): Carle Clinic Association: Protected health information was released from the covered entity when an imposter, posing as representatives…