If you’re going to misdirect a fax containing patient information, you probably would like to avoid misdirecting it to a news station. WFAA reports: Fax machines are an easy, reliable way to get documents from one place to another quickly. It’s one reason doctors’ offices use them so frequently when sharing patient information. “There has…
Category: Health Data
Fulton County clinic dumps sensitive medical records in plain sight
Dante Renzulli reports: A Fulton County clinic is caught dumping medical records in a place where identity thieves could easily get to them. On Thursday, CBS46 discovered the dumpster sitting right in front of the South Fulton Mental Heath Center contained hundreds of medical records. We didn’t even have to come in the middle of the night. CBS46 reporter, Dante Renzulli,…
MO: Citizens Memorial Hospital employee data compromised by W-2 phishing
Personal and financial information — gone. Officials say W2 tax forms were mistakenly given to a scammer. And now all workers at Citizens Memorial Hospital are at risk. CMH is not yet saying how many of its workers this impacts. They say everyone who works there and at all of the dozens of locations in…
Criminal record raises more questions about fired DC case worker in patient file breach case
Tisha Lewis has an update on a previously reported incident: FOX 5 is uncovering more about a D.C. case worker who sent confidential patient files to a complete stranger she met on Facebook to lighten her workload. The files included social security numbers and medical records. It turns out this case worker also has a…
Third-party incidents continue to put patient ePHI at risk: Protenus
Protenus, Inc. has released its Breach Barometer for January. As they report, 2017 is starting out where 2016 left off: we are seeing an average of one breach per day involving health data. Protenus’s report, based on 31 incidents, reported that there were 388,307 breached records for the 26 incidents for which they had numbers. The single largest…
AU: Top End Health Service breach exposes private details of cancer patients
Hayley Sorenson reports: Confidential documents showing the diagnoses and contact details of dozens of Royal Darwin Hospital cancer patients ended up in a suburban driveway. The three-page file appears to be an appointment schedule for Northern Territory Radiation Oncology, based at the Alan Walker Cancer Centre at the RDH. It shows the names, phone numbers and…