The good folks over at the Identity Theft Resource Center recently posted a very gracious thank-you to me and this site for helping track data breaches. I suspect that they’ll be pulling their hair out this weekend, though. 🙂 In addition to the 100 previously unreported breaches from 2009 that I posted here today, here…
Category: Health Data
100 more breaches you probably never knew about in 2009
As noted here and elsewhere, the number of breaches reported in the media and other sources declined in 2009 relative to 2008, but newly obtained data suggests that once again, there was much that we did not know. During the period September 1 – December 31, 2009,  141 breach reports were received by the…
Three recently reported breaches
The following incidents have been added to HHS’s web site of reported breaches involving unsecured PHI: University of Pittsburgh Student Health Center State: Pennsylvania Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 8,000 Date of Breach: 3/11/10 Type of Breach: Theft, Loss Location of Breached Information: Paper Records Laboratory Corporation of America/US LABS/Dianon Systems, Inc. State: Arizona Approx….
Ca: Snooping Pharmacist
Natalie Geddes reports: A pharmacist in Melville allegedly broke the law when he looked up the medication records of three people who weren’t even clients. A manager at L & M Pharmacy, Daryl Leshko say the man looked up the records because he was concerned for the well being of a personal acquaintance. The breach…
VA cops investigated for privacy violation
William R. Levesque reports: The door was supposed to be locked. It wasn’t. Two officers patrolling the Bay Pines VA Medical Center stepped inside. They found a stack of papers that should have been locked away. Some contained private patient information — Social Security numbers, treatment information, patient addresses. To figure out who could be…
VA cops investigated for privacy violation
William R. Levesque reports: The door was supposed to be locked. It wasn’t. Two officers patrolling the Bay Pines VA Medical Center stepped inside. They found a stack of papers that should have been locked away. Some contained private patient information — Social Security numbers, treatment information, patient addresses. To figure out who could be…