Christen Gowan reports: A medical records clerk from St. Peter’s Hospital was arrested on charges of stealing patients’ personal information and using it to open credit card accounts, police said, and more unknowing victims could be out there. Albany County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Johnathan Harwood, 23, of Van Buren Avenue, on Monday for opening credit…
Category: Health Data
Two more breaches added to HHS site
Neither of the following had been reported in the media sources routinely checked by this site: Mount Sinai Medical Center State: Florida Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 2,600 Date of Breach: 3/09/10 Type of Breach: Theft, Unauthorized Access Location of Breached Information: Laptop Hypertension, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, PC State: Alabama Approx. # of Individuals…
Baylor Medical Records Found in Dumpster
Richard Ray reports: Thousands of medical records have apparently been stolen from Baylor Health Care System and Dallas police are seeking to file felony charges for identity theft. Police said their investigation began this past Thursday at an apartment complex in far north Dallas. “Officers were flagged down by an apartment manager regarding medical records…
UK: Labour attacked over mailshot to cancer patients
Chris Hastings, Maurice Chittenden and Nyta Mann report: The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have attacked the Labour Party for sending “alarmist” literature to cancer patients, and called for an inquiry into whether NHS databases had been used to identify recipients. The row erupted after Labour sent cancer patients mailshots saying that their lives may…
UK: Organs removed without consent after IT blunder
Patrick Hennessy and Laura Donnelly report: The records of 800,000 people were affected by an error that meant their wishes about the use of their organs after death were wrongly recorded. An investigation has found that 45 of those for whom wrong records were stored have since died – and in approximately 20 cases organs…
Six face charges in ID theft ring
From the Monterey County Herald: Six people have been charged with using stolen identities to run up tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges in the San Francisco Bay Area. The defendants were arraigned Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. They did not enter pleas. The state Attorney General’s Office says the defendants…