Liv Osby reports: Patients of a Bon Secours St. Francis Health System medical practice are being notified that their personal information may be at risk after a data breach at the practice. On Jan. 4, officials learned that an unauthorized person had gained access to some systems at Milestone Family Medicine in Greenville, St. Francis said…
Category: Health Data
NZ: Patient documents missing, reportedly lost in ‘a gust of wind’
Joanne Carroll reports: A health board employee is under investigation after “misplacing” hundreds of patients’ medical information – some of which are still missing. The Canterbury and West Coast District Health Board only became aware of what it calls a “potential privacy breach” when a member of the public found some of the documents in…
MT: Rocky Boy Health Center reports breach of personal patient information
MTN News reports: There was a breach of personal patient information at the Rocky Boy Health Center recently. On Thursday evening, Rocky Boy Health Center CEO Jessica Windy Boy posted on the Center’s Facebook page stating health officials became aware of the breach on January 16. The breach reportedly happened on or around January 14….
UK: Dumbarton sheriff blasts hospital over medical records mix-up
Lennox Herald reports: A Dumbarton sheriff said a hospital could face legal action after it was revealed the wrong medical records had been sent to assist in a case. Sheriff William Gallacher blasted the actions of the hospital, calling the blunder a “catastrophic breach” of data protection. Solicitors had requested medical records for Mark Kelly,…
“Release my husband or else,” US citizen behind HIV data leak threathens to expose information to the public
Anna Maria Romero reports: Singapore — In an affidavit filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, Mikhy Farrera-Brochez admitted that he had the database of the HIV registry in his possession, had brought it into the US, and threatened the Government of Singapore that he would release the data for…
N.W.T. employee dug through planters, trash to find stolen laptop, weeks after privacy training (Part 2)
Priscilla Hwang reports: This is part 2 of three stories on the stolen laptop files. Here’s part 1. Part 3 is scheduled for next week. The N.W.T. government employee who was responsible for a laptop with health information for nearly the entire territory’s population had received training on how to securely handle portable devices just two weeks before…