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…
Category: Health Data
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…
California Department of Health Care Services notifies 29,808 of missing CD
On July 6, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) issued the following press release: The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has reported to federal authorities that a missing compact disc (CD) delivered to the department may not have been encrypted by the sender, Care 1st Health Plan. The CD contains personal…
SunBridge Healthcare notifies 3,830 residents of stolen laptop
On July 9, SunBridge Healthcare Corporation of New Mexico issued the following press release: A password-protected laptop computer, containing resident information from 10 states was stolen in May 2010. The states involved are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The theft was immediately reported to local law enforcement and…