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…
Category: Health Data
Pap smears, STIs and flu: What the N.W.T. gov’t didn’t tell you about a stolen laptop (Part 1)
Priscilla Hwang provides a troubling update on a stolen laptop incident disclosed last year. This story is Part 1 of 3 on the stolen laptop files. Part 2 is scheduled for Tuesday and Part 3 will publish next week. The number of people whose personal health information was put at risk after a laptop was stolen last year…
VT: Rutland Regional Medical Center notifies patients after employee email accounts hacked
On Feb. 20, Rutland Regional Medical Center in Vermont posted a notice on its web site that says, in pertinent part: Rutland Regional Medical Center (“Rutland Regional”) recently discovered an incident that may affect the security of personal information of certain individuals who received care from its facility. We take this incident very seriously, and…
UConn Health: 326,000 could be impacted by recent phishing attack
Matt Pilon reports: UConn Health on Friday disclosed that an unauthorized third party had accessed employee email accounts, potentially breaching the privacy of 326,000 patients and others. Of that number, 1,500 could have had their social security numbers exposed, UConn Health said. For others, potentially acquired details include names, dates of birth, addresses, and billing…
Kentucky Counseling Center notifies more than 16,000 patients after discovering suspected insider-wrongdoing breach
On February 11, Kentucky Counseling Center notified HHS of a breach impacting 16,440 patients. Using HHS’s coding system to report, the incident was reported as a case of unauthorized access/disclosure involving EMR. But on their site, KCC makes clear that they suspect a former employee of taking a list of patient information. The full notification…
UW Medicine notifying 974,000 patients whose information was exposed online in December
The University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine) is notifying patients after an error exposed protected health information of 974,000 patients online for three weeks in December. UW Medicine includes the University’s medical school as well as Harborview Medical Center, the UW Medical Center, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and more than two-dozen…