Why report just one insider breach/tax refund fraud scheme for the day when you can report two? Here’s a statement the Florida Department of Health in Orange County posted today on their site: The Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) is issuing a security breach notice to certain patients of its health centers…
Category: Health Data
Massive data breach a 'national security risk'
From The Local in Sweden: Three million Swedes may have had their medical journals available to prying eyes, after a large-scale IT failure affected patients in Stockholm and Gotland. The Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper, which made the discovery, reported on Wednesday that there were signs that intruders had tried to access medical journals. The medical…
Nursing assistant sentenced to 3 years for selling patient IDs
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….
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…