KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
Category: Health Data
Health Net reports yet another breach
To add to Health Net’s data protection woes, on January 6, it notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on September 9, it learned that a report sent electronically to one of its general insurance agents mistakenly contained information belonging to Health Net members who were not clients of that agent. The personal information…
MGH scandal continues
Hannah Clay Wareham reports: The debacle beginning in March 2009 with the loss of confidential patient records on a Red Line train continues in the new year with allegations of harassment against Massachusetts General Hospital staff. […] Soon after Jacob received the administrative assistant’s e-mail, Jacob says an anonymous caller alerted him to the appearance…
UK: Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database
Mark Tighe reports: Two computer servers containing the records of almost 1m patients were stolen from the Children’s University hospital in Temple Street in 2007 and have never been recovered. The data were far more than that lost on stolen bank laptops in recent years. The theft was investigated by the data protection commissioner (DPC)…
Customers alerted to BlueCross data breach
Customers of Chattanooga-based insurer BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee slowly are being notified by mail of a potential breach of their personal information. This week, BCBS will provide updated data to the public on exactly how many customers were exposed when 57 hard drives were pilfered in October from a storage closet at the insurer’s Eastgate…
Ex-UCLA researcher pleads guilty to record breach
Shaya Tayefe Mohajer of Associated Press reports: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher pleaded guilty to reading confidential medical records of celebrities, high-profile patients and his co-workers in federal court on Friday. Los Angeles resident Huping Zhou, 38, entered a conditional guilty plea to four counts of violating federal medical privacy laws in a…