Category: Health Data

Matthew Sturdevant reports that the recently disclosed Anthem breach may affect many more than the 230,000 recently reported. An online security breach put at risk the personal, financial and medical information of 470,000 WellPoint customers nationwide, including 5,600 in Connecticut, customers are learning this week in notification letters from the company. The breach only affects…

Sandra Yin reports on some breaches that weren’t reported previously on this site: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) found that Children’s Hospital of Orange County sent patient records to an auto shop in 2009, according to the Orange County Register. The business received six faxes containing healthcare information, including information that identified the…

An annual funding notice sent to 3,178 participants in the Eastern Connecticut Health Network Pension Plan exposed the participants’ Social Security Numbers on the mailing label after the firm’s consulting group, Mercer, subcontracted a mailing. According to a letter sent on May 13 by Jonathan Barry of Mercer to the New Hampshire Attorney’s General Office,…

Tom Corwin reports: About 13,000 people will be getting notices from University Hospital of a potential breach in privacy because of a missing data tape, even if it appears unlikely that it was actually taken or that anyone could use the data, an official said Thursday. The tape is one of two backups created for…

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…