Category: Health Data

There are so many complaints and lawsuits following breaches that I long ago gave up on mentioning them all.  But Kristen Stewart of the Salt Lake Tribune reports on one complaint that I found particularly interesting: When University of Utah health law professor Leslie Francis learned her name and Social Security number had been exposed in the…

CBC reports: More than 700 patients of the Roseway Hospital in Shelburne are receiving letters of apology after a privacy breach. A hospital employee — who has since been fired — inappropriately accessed the medical information of 707 patients through a work computer, said Fraser Mooney, a spokesman for South West Health. Mooney said the…

Matt Elofson has an update on a breach originally reported in July 2011: Federal agents recently arrested a Troy woman on felony charges for allegedly stealing the identities of 800 people while working at an area hospital as part of a government tax fraud scheme. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the…

Rashed Mian reports: An unknown number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients had clinical data and private information, in some cases their Social Security numbers, erroneously leaked onto two medical professional organization’s websites earlier this year, according to the hospital. After an inquiry by the Long Island Press Wednesday, the world’s oldest and largest cancer…

Ryan E. Little reports: Documents containing personal information from about 1,400 patients were stolen from Gessler Clinic in May, the clinic announced Tuesday. The clinic has been working with police since the May 3 disappearance of the documents and began notifying affected patients by mail this week. The stolen documents, which include Social Security numbers…

The California Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program has been notifying patients that a binder stolen from an employee’s car on May 8th contained their names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and medications.