The OSC today announced that Nellie Acar, Esther Cruz, Polina (Poly) Edry and Subramanian Sulur entered guilty pleas to charges laid following an investigation by the OSC’s Joint Serious Offences Team (JSOT) related to the misuse of confidential patient information from the Rouge Valley Health System and the Scarborough Hospital. Acar pleaded guilty to one count of secret commissions…
Category: Health Data
FBI raid on dental IT technician is already chilling disclosures
Over on the Daily Dot this morning, I have a follow-up to my earlier report on an FBI raid on Justin Shafer. There was a lot of anger towards the FBI and Patterson Dental in response to the raid, and I pulled together some of my favorite comments or responses from around the Internet. But more importantly,…
Ca: Rexall hands out patient’s confidential health records to wrong person
CityNews reports: When Maureen Pittman picked up her prescription from a Mississauga Rexall, she didn’t expect to be bringing home another patient’s entire confidential medication history. [… The 6-page] medication history contains the patient’s name, address, phone number, Ontario Health Insurance number, what medications were prescribed and what they are generally used for. Once Pittman realized…
EHR/EMR hacks impact Connecticut and Pennsylvania patients
Stamford Podiatry Group in Stamford, Connecticut is notifying patients that their network was comprised and electronic health records (EHR) may have been accessed and copied. Although forensics examination was unable to determine with certainty exactly what data were exfiltrated, Dr. Rui DiMelo, Vice President of Stamford Podiatry Group, informed patients that unauthorized persons obtained “covert”…
Tucson ER info with 1,000 names is stolen from doctor’s car
Emily Bregel reports: A Tucson doctor’s logbook was stolen from her car in March, compromising protected health information for more than 1,000 patients who visited Carondelet St. Mary’s and Carondelet St. Joseph’s emergency rooms. All patients have been notified of the breach of confidentiality and have been offered a year of free credit monitoring, said…
CFAA overreach: FBI raids home of security researcher
From the stop-me-if-you’ve-heard-this-one-before dept: Over on Daily Dot this morning, I reported that the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of researcher Justin Shafer. Shafer’s name will be familiar to regular readers of DataBreaches.net because he exposed a long-standing security vulnerability in Dentrix software and challenged Henry Schein’s claims that their product provided “encryption.” Our combined efforts resulted in…