Lake Sun reports: Multiple credit cards were apparently used by the employee arrested in the theft of more than $140,000 from the Morgan County Health Center along with the identity theft of a former employee. Melissa D. Owsley, 38, was arrested and charged last week with one count of identity theft resulting in the theft…
Category: Health Data
AU: Defense medical records sent to China in security breach
David Wroe reports: Eye test records and personal contact details of hundreds of military personnel including soldiers posted overseas were sent to China in a significant data security breach, Fairfax Media has learnt. The records, which included in many cases mobile phone numbers of personnel, were sent to a processing facility in China’s Guangdong province…
NZ: Swift apology after mental health privacy breach
Sarah-Jane O’Connor reports: A mental health support group is “mortified” after accidentally sending out the email addresses of hundreds of people with anxiety disorders. Christchurch woman Debbie Wilson said she received an email from Mental Health Advocacy and Peer Support (MHAPS) on Thursday and saw the addresses of the more than 200 recipients were visible….
East Sussex NHS Trust apologies over data breach
BBC reports: More than 3,000 patients have been sent a letter of apology by the NHS after a computer memory stick containing their personal information was found by a member of the public. East Sussex NHS Trust said the stick had been left by a member of staff near a trust building. The information was…
Stolen laptop contained UCSF research participants’ health & insurance info
The University of California – San Francisco posted this notice on their site on July 2: UC San Francisco is alerting individuals about a burglary involving an unencrypted laptop belonging to a faculty member in the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service that contained some personal, research and health information. While there is no evidence of…
Orlando Health notifying patients after uncovering unauthorized employee access to protected health information
The following substitute notice was posted on Orlando Health’s web site: Notice Regarding Unauthorized Access The privacy and confidentiality of our patient’s health information is of the utmost importance to Orlando Health. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident involving that information. On May 27, 2015, while conducting a routine patient record access audit…