Public notice from UCLA Health System, posted today on their web site: The UCLA Health System is notifying thousands of patients by mail that on Sept. 6, 2011, an external computer hard drive that contained some personal information on 16,288 patients was among a number of items stolen during a home invasion. Although this information…
Category: Health Data
Small update to the Futurity First Insurance Group breach
Reports of entities affected by the Futurity First Insurance Group breach continue to emerge. In addition to the previous update, the latest update to the HHS breach tool reveals that American Continental Insurance Company in Tennessee had 690 of their members affected. That now brings the known total for the breach to over 7,500. Keep…
(update) On second thought…. SAIC offers free credit monitoring after breach
TRICARE, the military health program, has directed its business associate, Science Applications International Corp., to offer one year’s worth of free credit monitoring and restoration services to the 4.9 million beneficiaries affected by a recent breach. Earlier, TRICARE had announced that it would not offer credit monitoring services, citing the minimal risk involved in the breach,…
www.podiatry.com hacked
According to a data dump on Pastebin.com, 382 individuals who registered with PRESENT e-Learning Systems’ PRESENT Podiatry program (www.podiatry.com) had their names, e-mail addresses, and affiliations acquired by a hacker who calls him/herself “Teku.” In a related data dump on Pastie, I see names and street addresses of what appears to be 86 registrants for…
Psychiatrist facing federal charges in HIPAA case acquitted by judge
I’ve mentioned this case before on this blog, but now new details have emerged in this case. Tim McGlone reports: A psychiatrist faces trial in federal court on charges of illegally disclosing medical information of a Virginia state trooper who had been in his care after being held hostage and raped over three nights. Prosecutors…
A rash of x-ray thefts highlights an often overlooked risk
I’ve occasionally reported news stories concerning the theft of x-ray films containing personally identifiable information. Here’s another example from HHS’s latest update to the breach tool: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Pennsylvania notified 3,150 patients after x-ray films were stolen on September 6. The hospital posted a notice linked from its home page. A search of…