Cecilia Chan reports: The latest edition of Banner Health’s “Smart & Healthy Magazine” arrived to mailboxes over the weekend containing Social Security numbers of recipients on the address labels. “We try so hard to protect our Social Security number and then to have it publicized, it’s very disturbing,” Sun City West resident Janet Carlson said…
Category: Health Data
Brooklyn Hospital Center notifies patients of stolen USB with medical information
Brooklyn Hospital Center, a member hospital of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, posted this notice on their website, linked from their home page: Notice of Disclosure of Patient Information On December 2, 2013, a backpack belonging to a medical resident was stolen while the doctor was on The Brooklyn Hospital Center property. The backpack contained a USB…
PA: Supportive Concepts for Families notifies clients after personal information was exposed on Google for 10 months
Supportive Concepts for Families, Inc. in Reading, PA offers services for clients with mental health/intellectual developmental disabilities. A hardware upgrade in February 2013 left consumer information in an internal database exposed in Google with no login credentials required. They have posted a notice dated February 13, 2014 on their site, although it is not linked…
Memphis VA breach due to armed robbery
Well, I finally got more information on this breach involving the Memphis VA Medical Center. The Department of Veterans Affairs sent me their report on the incident, which occurred on December 1, when a Resident was the victim of an armed robbery in the VA Medical Center west parking lot. In the Resident’s possession at the…
Two Defendants Sentenced In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme Relating To A Health Care Provider
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that Angelo Ponds, 32, of Miami Gardens, and Sean Guillaume, 31, of Miramar, were sentenced February 21 for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme relating to a…
Study shows recycled computers give away personal information
A study commissioned in Australia by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), a non-profit, data protection watchdog agency, has found significant amounts of personal information left on recycled computers. For the organisations recycling their drives, this is a data breach problem. For individuals, their most private information is at risk. The NAID-ANZ Secondhand Hard Drive…