Some of the breaches mentioned in this press release had been covered on PHIprivacy.net. Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced James Lee Cobb, III (27, Tampa) to 27 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity…
Category: Health Data
St. Lucie Medical Center gave patient records to wrong patient, exposing Social Security numbers
This happens all the time, all over this country.
PA: Hershey Medical Center notifies 1,801 patients of potential breach
Lancaster Online reports: Penn State Hershey Medical Center said it has notified 1,801 patients of a privacy breach, after it was discovered an employee had been working with protected health information from his home computer. Officials at the hospital said in a press release Friday afternoon that results of an extensive internal investigation give no…
Breach of patient records investigated by UC Irvine Medical Center
Statement from UC Irvine Medical Center: June 17, 2015 On March 13, 2015, officials at UC Irvine Medical Center discovered that an employee, whose job required access to some patient records, had looked at additional records without a job-related purpose between June 2011 and March 2015. As far as it is possible to determine, the…
Blue Shield of California notifies some members of exposure breach following software update
Software updates are an all-too-common source of breaches. Here’s another one, this involving Blue Shield of California. From their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office: As the (unintended) result of a computer code update Blue Shield made to the website on May 9, three users who logged into their own website accounts simultaneously with…
NY: Metropolitan Hospital Center notifies almost 4,000 patients of breach
The NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation is providing some powerful reminders of the importance of auditing and monitoring employee emails. Last month, I noted that they had detected breaches involving patients at Bellevue Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center. On June 1, HHC notified HHS of yet another email-related breach, this one involving Metropolitan Hospital Center….