By Lisa A. Davis and Neil Johnson report: On Sunday morning, Karen and Scott Keith made their monthly stop at the Land O’ Lakes Recycling center to drop off household recycling items. When they looked at the paper bin it was not only full to the point of pushing up the lid, it was practically…
Category: Health Data
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
(follow-up) TN: BlueCross completes analysis of data theft
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…
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…