WICS reports: A laptop containing personal information of 1,891 SIU [Southern Illinois University] HealthCare patients is presumed stolen. The computer, which belonged to a former SIU orthopedic surgeon, was discovered missing from a locked office on October 15. SIU HealthCare said today that certain personal and medical information of 1,891 patients was contained on the laptop….
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TX: Laptop with Houston Methodist Hospital patient info stolen
Mike Glenn reports: Sensitive information for about 1,300 transplant patients is missing after a laptop and files were reported stolen, officials with Houston Methodist Hospital said Friday. The encrypted laptop and files were taken Thursday. They held personal information, including names, Social Security numbers and birth dates. Read more on The Houson Chronicle. KHOU also covers the incident.There is…
Horizon BCBS notifying 840,000 members after laptops stolen with personal data (update 1)
Ed Beeson reports: Nearly 840,000 members of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield are being notified that their personal information may have been contained on a pair of laptops that were stolen from the insurer’s Newark headquarters last month. The stolen laptops were password-protected, but had unencrypted data, Horizon said in a statement today. A subsequent…
FTC vs. LabMD update
Two more court filings in FTC vs. LabMD are now available online: the FTC’s Opposition to LabMD’s Motion to Stay Proceedings and LabMD’s reply to FTC’s response opposing LabMD’s motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice and to stay the proceedings. The latter is of more interest to me right now, but I am putting off a…
Genesis Rehabilitation Services breach also affected patients
Back on October 29 and over on DataBreaches.net, I reported: 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…
UK: GP surgery manager prosecuted for illegally accessing patients’ medical records
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former manager who oversaw the finances of a GP’s practice in Maidstone has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully accessing the medical records of approximately 1,940 patients registered with the surgery. Appearing at Maidstone Magistrates Court today, 37-year-old Steven Tennison pleaded guilty to charges of…