Vanessa Miller reports: After an extensive investigation of a reported theft of medical records from two clinics in the Boulder Community Hospital’s network earlier this year, officials have determined that 79 patients had their personal information exposed. Hospital spokesman Rich Sheehan said the information theft was confined to patients of the Family Medical Associates clinic…
Category: Health Data
Ca: University Health Network Notifies Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of stolen laptop with patient information
University Health Network (UHN) is issuing this advisory to notify patients who had surgical procedures from 2004-2010 about a stolen laptop taken from a staff person’s car on the weekend of May 8-9, 2010. The laptop contained select personal health information on about 20,000 surgical patients from all sites at University Health Network. University Health…
Class Sues Over Infant Blood Sampling in B.C.
Darryl Greer reports: A mother has filed a class action accusing British Columbia’s Provincial Health Services Authority of collecting blood samples from every infant born in B.C. and the Yukon since 1999 without permission. Natalie Docherty and her two children, identified as L.D. and E.D., say the agency collected blood samples from the infants before…
Tulsa woman pleads guilty in identity theft case
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here last month: A Tulsa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy in which personal identifying information was taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system and used as part of a scheme involving fraudulent credit cards and stolen mail. Teresa R. Browning, 36,…
Stupid is as stupid does: the Lake Ridge Middle School breach
A breach that was not reported on this site initially but was covered on DataBreaches.net, apparently involved medical information, too, as we now learn… As a follow-up to previous coverage about the stolen Lake Ridge Middle School stolen thumb drive here and here, Andrea McCarren of WUSA-9 provides some additional details that have infuriated parents…
City of Charlotte joins list of Towers Watson data loss victims
The City of Charlotte becomes the third entity to reveal that their data were on two DVDs lost by Towers Watson. In April, DataBreaches.net reported that Lorillard Tobacco was notifying employees that their names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers were on two missing DVDs. General Agencies Welfare Benefits Program also reported that…