The following is a press release: A proposed class action for a breach of privacy has been commenced against Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga Ophthalmologist Dr. Tony Vettese, and his assistant, Lisa Lyons. Mississauga businesswoman and Trillium patient Katie Mallinson has alleged that Lyons used her access to Trillium’s entire database to secretly review the confidential…
Category: Health Data
OH: Trial begins for former ProMedica employee accused of illegally-accessing patient data
Amulya Raghuveer reports: A trial has begun for a former ProMedica employee charged with unlawfully and intentionally gaining access to patient data at Bay Park Hospital. Jamie Knapp was indicted in April 2015 on charges of obtaining individually identifiable health information and unauthorized access of a protected computer. The respiratory therapist is alleged to have…
Ca: Empire Life notifies customers of data breach
I don’t understand: if they detected and responded to this phishing incident in November, 2015, why are they first issuing this statement now? June 17, 2016 (Toronto, Ontario) – The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) announced today that the company is responding to a data breach that may affect a number of its customers. On…
Ca: 397 medical records snooped at Hamilton General Hospital
Joanna Frketich reports on yet another snooping out of curiosity case: An employee snooped into the medical records of 397 patients at Hamilton General Hospital. The staff member was fired after an investigation by Hamilton Health Sciences concluded the privacy of emergency room patients was breached from June 2015 to May 2016. Read more on…
ENT and Allergy Center of Arkansas notifying patients of Bizmatics security incident
Add the ENT and Allergy Center in Arkansas to the list of covered entities notifying patients of a breach involving Bizmatics, Inc. In a statement dated May 31, that is linked from their web site, Stephen Cashman, M.D., states that the practice was initially notified of the incident in January, 2016. But, “At that time, Bizmatics could…
Walmart vendor error exposed limited patient information
Walmart, who reported a breach involving pharmacy records in March, has disclosed another breach to HHS. This one, reported June 8, reportedly affected 27,393 patients. Thankfully, it does not seem to have exposed particularly sensitive information. DataBreaches.net asked Walmart for a statement describing the incident, and received the following statement: Recently, we learned that the company…