Another insider breach at a Florida healthcare facility. Patty Ryan reports that Denetria Barnes was sentenced to 37 months in prison Tuesday for conspiring with a boyfriend [Jakiel Bazart] to defraud the government by peddling hundreds of patient identities. Many wound up in the hands of a Tampa detective posing as a tax refund thief….
Category: Health Data
Genesis Rehabilitation Services employee loses unencrypted thumb drive with employees’ information
Genesis Rehabilitation Services in Pennsylvania reports that an employee lost a thumb drive with the unencrypted personal information of 33 employees, agency employees, or applicants to GRS. The information on the drive included individuals’ names, postal or email addresses, and Social Security numbers. The drive had reportedly been left in a secure office at Lebanon Center,…
Patients' medical records go missing from University Hospital of North Staffordshire
Up to 70 sets of patients’ notes are going missing at Staffordshire’s biggest hospital every day, it has emerged. The shock findings come despite a new £60,000 digital system brought in to store them more safely. Bosses at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire admit that at any one time between 40 and 70 of…
ZA: Hospital ‘loses’ crash victims’ files
Nondumiso Mbuyazi reports: Medical records of three Field’s Hill accident survivors are missing from King Edward Hospital. The survivors of the horrific Pinetown truck accident were being treated at the hospital for weeks after the September 5 accident that claimed the lives of 24 people. However, they were told last week that their medical records…
Gerdau notifies employees of privacy breach after HealthFitness laptop stolen
Last week, HealthFitness notified Gerdau that there was a possible data breach of the personal health information of some of its employees, spouses and dependents, according to a news release cited in a Jackson Sun news story: The letter notes that HealthFitness, which works as the third-party administrator for Gerdau’s health management and wellness program, discovered…
Online security breach at SAH disgruntles many job seekers
Darren Taylor reports: A SooToday.com reader has informed us that he has been the target of unsolicited emails, texts and telemarketing calls, and claims this is the result of a mishap involving the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) website’s online job application system. The reader was notified by SAH in a letter dated October 24, 2013…