Every so often, we come across a breach involving doctors’ Social Security numbers being exposed online because they use their SSN as their Tax Identification Number (TIN). Here’s another one of those case, this time involving Anthem Blue Cross of California: We are sending you this letter to notify you that your Tax Identification Number (“TIN”), along with…
Category: Health Data
California physician notifying patients of breach involving old patient data
Here’s another case where a covered entity only learned about a breach when they were contacted by law enforcement. Kathleen E. Whisman, M.D. notified patients on August 5 that on or about April 11, she received a call from the San Ramon Police Department. They informed her that while investigating an ID theft ring,…
Meanwhile, in FTC v. LabMD….
Just to keep everyone apprised on developments in the case this month: LabMD filed a motion to quash 35 subpoenas that had been issued on one day. And on November 12, LabMD filed its motion to dismiss the FTC complaint with prejudice and to stay administrative proceedings. In their motion to dismiss, LabMD raises essentially the same arguments that…
GA: Medical records scattered across Gwinnett County road
Tony Thomas reports: Thousands of pages of medical documents containing confidential information are back in the control of a local hospital after being dumped across a busy Gwinnett County road. […] Officials confirm the papers came from Eastside Medical Center in Snellville. A hospital spokeswoman tells Thomas the papers were taken by a vendor to…
Papen And Morales Call For Patient Information Security After Behavioral Health Audit
by Senator Howie C. Morales (D-Silver City) and Senate President Pro Tempore Mary Kay Papen (D-Las Cruces): …. If state law provides greater privacy protection than federal law, state law controls. New Mexico’s Children’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Act places limitations on the disclosure, without consent, of behavioral health information that could be…
Patients Worried About Compromised Records At AnMed
Oh my. Here’s an insider breach from earlier this year that I seem to have missed. WSPA had reported: Some patients of AnMed Health are worried their information is in the wrong hands. Hospital officials would not specify how many people received a letter which states someone accessed medical records without a legitimate reason. AnMed…