Justin Heinze reports: Einstein Healthcare Network may have suffered a data breach, they announced Thursday, and they are sending letters home to patients that may have been effected. The incident involved a website database containing patient information entered into Einstein’s website “Request for Information” form, Einstein said. Read more on Norristown Patch. EHN posted…
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UK: Expectant parents hit by National Childbirth Trust data breach
BBC reports: A childbirth charity has apologised to expectant parents after their registration details were accessed in a “data breach”. The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) sent a message saying their email addresses, usernames and passwords had been “compromised”. The incident has been reported to police and the UK’s data watchdog. The NCT stressed no other…
Computers Off Limits to Anthem in Data Breach Suit
Matthew Renda reports: A federal judge denied Anthem’s request for access to computers of former customers who accuse the insurance giant of failing to protect their personal information in an enormous data breach last year. Anthem filed a motion seeking permission to access plaintiffs’ computers, smartphones and tablets to image and copy them to determine…
Mental health records sent to N.S. spa in error over last decade
Yvonne Colbert reports: A Bedford, N.S., woman has spent more than a decade trying to plug a privacy breach that has resulted in personal mental health records being faxed to her business, and has turned to CBC News in an effort to get the faxes to stop. Over the years, Lisa Belanger estimates she’s received dozens…
Ca: Co-workers irate after Powell River nurse who snooped in medical files gets job back
If you think it’s “excessive” to fire an employee for snooping in patients’ records, then you don’t get the importance of medical privacy. And for a union representing healthcare workers to try to claim that an employee shouldn’t be fired for repeated snooping just because others hadn’t been fired is, well…. disgraceful. What has happened…
NM: Northern Navajo Medical Center patient information turns up in NM storage units
AP reports: A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said. Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage units near Farmington. They were taken from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock last fall without authorization, officials said. Read more on KOAT. Notification…