Remember the BlueCross breach in Chattanooga from October. First it was 57 hard drives, then 68, then 3, then 1, depending on which report you read. Now it’s 57 again, it seems. Today, Blue Cross issued a breach notification on its web site, as required by the new HITECH Act: Required Substitute HITECH Act Notice…
Category: Health Data
NH: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
As a follow-up to the coverage of a patient privacy breach involving Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH), Adam D. Krauss of Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that a number of agencies are now piling on. Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is…
Update: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
Adam D. Krauss reports: Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is reviewing what happened. “It is something we’re looking into,” said James Boffetti, who leads the AG’s Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau. Boffetti said he could not divulge specifics,…
Health Net notifies New Hampshire that 504 residents affected
Health Net’s notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is now available online (pdf). Dated November 23, the letter states that although the files on the lost portable hard drive were not encrypted as they should have been, because they were image-only format files of scanned documents, they would be difficult to view. The…
Health Net's notification to New Hampshire
Health Net’s notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is now available online (pdf). Dated November 23, the letter states that although the files on the lost portable hard drive were not encrypted as they should have been, because they were image-only format files of scanned documents, they would be difficult to view. The…
Judge throws out lawsuit against Express Scripts
Brendon Tavelli of Proskauer Rose writes: On November 23, 2009, a federal court in Missouri bucked the recent trend in identity exposure lawsuits and refused to recognize Article III standing in a class action lawsuit that alleged simply an increased risk of identity theft resulting from a data breach. In Amburgy v. Express Scripts, Inc.,…