The Associated Press reports on an ID theft ring in Chicago that targeted medical records to obtain information with which they could get credit cards: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the ring charged more than $300,000 to the credit accounts of 245 victims. Dart says one suspect worked for a janitorial service that cleaned…
Category: Health Data
DHEC employee fired after SLED inquiry
Earlier in March, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported a breach involving the exposure of unshredded documents. At the time, it was not clear that any medical records were involved and so the incident was not reported here. But a follow-up investigation reveals that medical records were, indeed, involved. WIS10 reports:…
Your health, tax, and search data siphoned
Dan Goodin reports: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft’s Bing, and other leading websites are leaking medical histories, family income, search queries, and massive amounts of other sensitive data that can be intercepted even when encrypted, computer scientists revealed in a new research paper. Researchers from Indiana University and Microsoft itself were able to infer the sensitive data…
Three newly revealed breaches affect over 20,000 (updated)
The new HHS/OCR web site has added two three more breach reports: Montefiore Medical Center State: New York Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 625 Date of Breach: 2/20/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Laptop Private Practice City and State: San Antonio, Texas Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 21,000 Date of Breach: 2/20/10…
N.L. health staff disciplined after deliberately breaching patient records
Newfoundland and Labrador’s health care system suffered another setback Wednesday when the province’s largest health board revealed that some of its staff had deliberately breached the privacy of patients. Hours after the province’s health minister announced that strides had been made to improve health care since the breast cancer testing scandal, Eastern Health said some…
Surgeon Posted Nude Photos, Woman Says
Srin McAuley reports: A woman claims her plastic surgeon posted nude photos of her on Facebook without her consent. She claims Dr. Dennis Hurwitz and the Hurwitz Center for Plastic Surgery posted Before and After photos of her from her neck to her knees, along with her name, allowing anyone who looked at the photos…