Phoenix, Arizona – March 3, 2017 – Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy (“Saliba’s Pharmacy”) is notifying certain patients of the inadvertent e-mailing of December 2016 invoices, which contained patient names, addresses, account balances, and may have also included a description and dosage amount of prescription or over-the-counter medication or other pharmacy items provided by Saliba’s Pharmacy…
Category: Health Data
UK: £650 fine for former nurse who snooped in patients’ records
There’s an update to a breach first noted in July 2016. The Milford Mercury reports that the nurse, who was sacked after ‘inappropriately accessing’ more than 3,000 patient files over a two-year period, has admitted breaching the Data Protection Act. Sixty-three-year-old Elaine Lewis, from Llansteffan, appeared at Llanelli Magistrates Court today (Friday, March 3). She admitted…
Chadron Community Hospital discloses insider wrongdoing that went on for more than 5 years
Let’s start with their notice of the incident: Chadron Community Hospital and Health Services takes our obligation to protect our patients’ personal health information seriously. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On January 3, 2017, we learned that one of our staff members had accessed patient medical records outside of the employee’s job…
Allina Health notifies Minneapolis Heart Institute patients of data breach
This is not the first time we’ve seen a cleaning crew accidentally improperly dispose of patient records, but I do like Allina Health’s response to this incident to prevent recurrences. February 23 – This announcement is regarding a privacy incident that occurred at Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, located at 800 E 28thSt., Minneapolis,…
Data of 750 Patients Breached in Computer Theft at Sharp Healthcare
Cassia Pollock reports: The personal health information of more than 750 outpatients at Sharp Healthcare might have been compromised because of a computer theft, the San Diego-based medical care provider announced Friday. In a statement, Sharp said a computer and external storage device were discovered missing on Feb. 6 from a locked cabinet in an access-controlled patient…
Health insurer Excellus fails in latest attempt to get breach lawsuit dismissed
Patrick O’Neill reports the latest litigation update involving Excellus, whose breach was covered on this site in 2015: Four years after Excellus BlueCross BlueShield was hacked and more than 10 million members had their data exposed, the insurer remains on the defensive in class action lawsuits claiming it ignored cybersecurity at peril of its own members….