Back in March, PHIprivacy.net noted that a psychologist’s laptop containing PHI on 652 clients of Washington Department of Social and Health Services had been stolen from the psychologist’s car. As we reported at the time, the laptop was recovered from a pawn shop. Today, there was an interesting follow-up from KING5, who report that Dr. Sunil Kakar’s…
Category: Health Data
Burglary at Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County compromises clients' personal and medical information
Lawyers are supposed to protect clients’ information, but it seems the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County played with fire until its clients were burnt. During a burglary of their offices on August 12, ten of their laptops with clients’ personal information were stolen. In a letter to those affected, M. Stacey Hawver, Executive Director, writes: We…
Privacy breaches in VA health records wound veterans
Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports on an investigation they conducted on privacy breaches involving veterans’ health records. Some of their findings: … VA workers or contractors committed 14,215 privacy violations at 167 facilities from 2010 through May 31, victimizing at least 101,018 veterans and 551 VA employees. Photos of the anatomy of some were posted…
Sentara employees plead guilty to stealing patient information for tax refund fraud scheme
Scott Daugherty has an update on an insider breach involving two former Sentara Healthcare nurse’s aides. It turns out that they accessed the information of 3,700 patients between September 2011 and April 2013. Most of the victims were patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital between September 2012 and February 2013. Sentara Healthcare’s chief privacy officer,…
Hartford Can't Avoid Hospital Data Breach Coverage
Law360 reports that a California Judge ruled Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. cannot dodge coverage for two class actions seeking $20 million over a 2011 Stanford Hospital and Clinics breach. Subscription required to read their coverage. Previous coverage of the breach on this site can be found here and here.
Rothman Institute offers free credit monitoring to patients after internal data breach
PressOfAtlanticCity.com reports: The Rothman Institute, which has locations throughout Atlantic and Cape May counties, released a letter regarding an internal breach of patient data that could have affected the privacy of some patients. The Philadelphia-based orthopedic institute said in a statement Monday they discovered a former employee had removed paper copies of daily patient schedules…