Caroline Tilley reports: Dozens of confidential patient medical records were breached after they ended up in a charity shop, it has been revealed. More than 40 patients at Mersea Island Medical Practice were affected by the breach when a GP took the documents home and accidentally donated them to St Helena’s Hospice. Staff members realised…
Category: Health Data
NJ: Addictions Recovery Provider Integrity House Notifies Individuals of Burglary of Device with PHI
From their notification: NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – January 18, 2019 – Integrity House has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in unauthorized access to personal information, including Social Security numbers and limited health information. Although at this time there is no evidence of any attempted or actual misuse of…
Verity Health System of California, Inc. and Verity Medical Foundation Notify Individuals and Regulatory Bodies of Data Security Incident
From their public notification: [El Segundo, CA, January 25, 2019] – Although there is no evidence of the unauthorized access or use of individual health or personal information, Verity Health System of California, Inc. and Verity Medical Foundation (collectively “Verity”) are notifying potentially affected individuals that some of their personal information may have been accessed…
Data of 14,200 Singapore patients with HIV leaked online by American fraudster who was deported from here
Chang AI-Lien reports: Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Ministry of Health revealed on Monday (Jan 28). Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 onward before being…
CO: Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates notifies almost 24,000 patients after hack of employee email accounts
Critical Care, Pulmonary & Sleep Associates in Colorado has notified 23,377 patients of a privacy incident. Their on-site notice offers a useful reminder that while bad actors may be seeking to engage in financial theft or fraud, when files with ePHI are connected to employee email accounts, patients and HHS may wind up needing to be…
Ca: REPORT: Significant privacy breach at Belleville General Hospital
David Foot reports: According to newspaper reports, there’s been a privacy breach at Belleville General Hospital, in what Quinte Health Care officials are calling an isolated incident. The Belleville Intelligencer report says a nurse was fired over the incident for accessing “hundreds of patient records” and that, while QHC staff are trying to nail down…