A notification letter template that showed up on the California Attorney General’s site this week is dated “February 19, 2021.” I assume the 2021 is a typo based on the rest of the letter. The letter from Orthopedic Associates of Hawaii (OAH) begins (emphasis added by this site): Orthopedic Associates of Hawaii, All Access Ortho…
Category: Health Data
Sg: Ex-deputy lead of MOH data unit jailed for leaking daily Covid-19 case numbers in 2020
Low Youjin reports from Singapore: Despite having signed an undertaking to safeguard official information, a former deputy lead from a data management unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) chose to leak classified Covid-19 information to members of a chat group on multiple occasions before it was officially announced to the public. Zhao Zheng’s attitude towards…
Ie: Mother seeking compensation from HSE over data breach involving report into treatment of toddler at hospital
Independent.ie reports: A report compiled by the HSE in response to a complaint about the treatment given to a 19-month-old patient found its way into the wrong hands, Wexford Circuit Court was told. The result was a case taken on behalf of the now three-year-old girl from County Wexford seeking compensation for the breach of…
Michigan Medicine notifies 269 patients after discovering a snooping employee
Here’s a good example of how monitoring and logs can detect a problem and prevent even more problems. Michigan Medicine detected an employee accessing patient records without legitimate need. The improper access began in December, 2021, and continued until it was caught by monitoring on January 25, 2022. Access was cut off on January 27…
UK: Tens of thousands of NHS patients’ private medical information leaked in shocking data breach
Michael Powell reports: Private medical information about tens of thousands of NHS patients has been leaked in a shocking data breach, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The confidential files include hospital appointment letters for women who have suffered miscarriages, test results of cervical screening and letters to parents of children needing urgent surgery at Alder…
NC: Charlotte Radiology notifies patients of December security incident
Joe Marusak reports: A prominent Charlotte medical services provider experienced a recent weeklong data breach in which some patient information was stolen, “including a very limited number of patients’ Social Security numbers,” company officials said Friday. In a statement, Charlotte Radiology officials said they found no evidence of “fraud or misuse” as a result of…