Matt McDonald reports that “piles and piles of medical records, court documents and other personal files” were found in an open dumpster in Taylorsville, Utah yesterday morning. The documents were found by a dentist, who called the police. As we’ve heard too many times, police investigated but determined that it would be difficult to pursue any…
Category: Health Data
Former Fort Benning Hospital employee sentenced for role in tax refund fraud scheme.
There’s a follow-up to a case that I’ve been covering since February, 2014, when Tracy Mitchell, a former Fort Benning Hospital employee, was indicted for stealing service members’ identity information to use for a tax refund fraud scheme. A superseding indictment was subsequently filed in May, 2014. Mitchell pled guilty in April of this year. She was…
Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix sued over 2012 insider breach
Remember the Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix insider breach of 2012 where a rogue employee provided ambulance patient identity information to others involved in a tax refund fraud scheme? I had covered it on PHIprivacy.net (cf here and here for just two of the posts) and also on this site (cf, this post). In reporting on the breach, one of the…
Privacy breach no more: Eastern Health finds missing USB in file folder
CBC News reports: Eastern Health says it’s found the missing USB flash drive containing thousands of employees’ personal information — it was in a file folder in the Human Resources department the whole time. The health authority reported a privacy breach June 19 when a drive containing sensitive information of 9,000 employees went missing. Read…
MT: Vandal gains access to medical files
Matt Hudson reports: Storage unit break-ins have become commonplace in the Flathead, but a recent incident had an unusual twist when a Kalispell medical practice discovered that its stored patient files had been accessed improperly. Urology Associates has been letting patients know that the firm’s storage unit, which houses thousands of patient files under lock…
Police fear assisted living home operator may stolen multiple patients’ identities
Adam Walser reports: An unlicensed St. Petersburg assisted living facility that cared for the elderly may have actually been stealing some of their identities, according to law enforcement. There’s no sign at Access Adult Family Care Home at 2895 38th Ave. N., but police and the Florida Department of Health say that until several hours…