Dan Tilkin, KATU News reports: …. Pilot Joe Ryan is still trying to get well – fiscally. About a year ago, he received a collection notice in the mail. He thought it was a practical joke. “It was a bill saying I owed $44,000,†Ryan recalls, “and the nightmare began.†Medical ID theft can not…
Category: Health Data
Employee who sold celebrity medical records dies
Solvej Schou of the Associated Press reports that prosecutors are moving to dismiss charges against Lawanda Jackson, the UCLA Medical Center employee who had pleaded guilty to selling celebrities’ medical records. Jackson reportedly died in March.
UK: Sensitive data on eBay computers, Part 2
Yesterday, I posted a story from BBC about how patient data from two hospitals was found on hard drives being sold to the public. That same study by BT and University of Glamorgan also found corporate data. Channel4 News in the UK summarizes some of what was found. To excerpt from their summary as it…
UK: St Albans patients’ data was on stolen laptops
The Herts Advertiser is reporting that although West Herts Hospitals Trust was aware that three laptops had been stolen — the first in March 2006, the second in 2007, and the third in February 2008 — it was only last month that the trust learned that they contained personally identifiable patient data. The way the…
HK: Privacy push at leak hospitals
Nickkita Lau of The Standard reports: The privacy commission and Hospital Authority have launched a HK$200,000 campaign to protect patients’ details following leaks at public hospitals. The Care for Patients – Protect Their Personal Data campaign is the largest the commission has organized for a specific profession.
UK: Patient data found on hard drives
From the BBC: Medical records, confidential letters and X-rays of patients in Lanarkshire have been found on second-hand computer hard drives. Two disks bought for a study on data security contained sensitive information from Monklands and Hairmyres hospitals. NHS Lanarkshire said the disks were disposed of in 2006 before it improved its data protection procedures….