Category: Health Data

One of the breaches added to HHS’s public breach list today gave me a bit of a headache. Well, to be honest, they generally all give me a headache, but this one took me time to sort out. And although I may have a headache now, I suspect UHS-Pruitt may have a bigger headache.  It…

The Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center (MLK)  in the Bronx, New York, recently notified 37,000 patients of a security breach that occurred in 2009. The incident was just added to HHS’s breach list today. I was unable to find any media coverage of the breach, but found a notice on the center’s web site that…

One of the breaches newly revealed on HHS’s public breach list involves Greater Dallas Orthopaedics, PLLC in Texas, who reported that 5,840 patients had PHI on a desktop stolen on August 30. Although I couldn’t find any statement about the breach on their web site at this time (I wish it wouldn’t take HHS so long to post…

HHS added 16 breach reports to its public breach tool today, bringing the counter of breaches each affecting 500 or more individuals to 736 since HITECH went into effect September 23, 2009. As I’ve done in the past, I’ll begin by noting which of the additions we already knew about, annotated if there’s anything new…

Over on DataBreaches.net, a number of people are reporting that they have received notification letters for the Maricopa Community Colleges breach, but that they’ve never attended the college and have no idea why they’re receiving letters. Today, I got an email about a breach reported on this site (phiprivacy.net). I’m redacting it, but it says:…

Jennifer van der Kleut reports: The Fairfax County Health Department has mailed letters to 1,499 clients of the Bailey’s Health Center, located in Falls Church, to inform them of an unauthorized disclosure of some protected health information. View the letter to Bailey’s Health Center clients. This is one of those situations where it really pays to have Business…