Data on more than 3,000 patients in Hong Kong public hospitals has been lost through the theft of computer memory sticks, officials said Monday. Nine memory sticks have been stolen from five hospitals across the city of 6.9 million in the past year, the hospital authority’s chief executive Shane Solomon said. A task force headed…
Category: Health Data
TX: Sensitive Information Found Blowing In The Wind
Seema Mathur reports for CBS11: Piles of documents with private information were found out in the open at an abandoned health care facility that was demolished in Fort Worth. Harry Daughtry lives near the rubble. Until this weekend, Daughtry said the abandoned health care facility had been a nuisance for years. After the demolition trucks…
Ca: Health records found beside trash
Lori Coolican reports in The StarPhoenix: As he walked past the Mall at Lawson Heights on his way to work Wednesday, Garnet Nicholson noticed an envelope on the ground by a garbage can outside the entrance to a department store. Something about it struck him as odd, so he went over and looked inside. He…
RI: Hospital reports security breach
A security breach was reported at Roger Williams Medical Center. Hospital officials said Dr. Satori Iwamoto, a skin cancer specialist, had a digital camera stolen from an outpatient area. The pictures of at least three cancer patients in various stages of treatment were on the camera. Each picture had the patient’s name on it. A…
TX: Agency discovers private patient information on Internet
Melissa McEver reports in the Brownsville Herald: All it took was a quick Internet search to yield private medical information on more than two dozen Rio Grande Valley children. Until Thursday, the Web site of a children’s rehabilitation clinic had a link to spreadsheets containing the full names, phone numbers and insurance status of about…
UCSF waited six months before telling patients of data breach
Elizabeth Fernandez of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: Information on thousands of UCSF patients was accessible on the Internet for more than three months last year, a possible violation of federal privacy regulations that might have exposed the patients to medical-identity theft, The Chronicle has learned. The information accessible online included names and addresses of…