Darrah McDonagh reports: Garda documents fell off the back of a motorcycle when it hit a speed bump and were never recovered, according to records. The incident was one of more than 40 data-protection breaches involving sensitive information held by the Department of Justice and Equality that were recorded last year. Read more on The…
Category: Lost or Missing
IOM: Manx government loses home care residents’ personal data
BBC reports: Personal information belonging to dozens of vulnerable people receiving government-funded home care on the Isle of Man has been lost. Paper records of phone numbers, names and addresses of 33 adults had been “mislaid”, the Department of Health and Social Care admitted. Codes to access the keys to seven people’s homes were also…
AU: Queensland Health launches investigation after medical files found on busy Brisbane road
Josh Bavas reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a large parcel of patients’ medical documents, earmarked for destruction, were lost on a busy Brisbane road. A staff member came across the files last Thursday on Abbotsford Road in Bowen Hills, kilometres away from their home at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). hey had…
Sensitive patient records found on Cork city street
Catherine Shanahan reports: Documents with sensitive patient data identifying children and adults, details of surgical procedures, and reasons for missing appointments have been found on a busy city-centre street in Cork. The highly personalised information relating to patients attending Cork University Hospital (CUH) for plastic surgery was discovered by Luke Field, a Labour Party local…
Hong Kong gov’t dental clinic loses personal information of nearly 400 patients
Holmes Chan reports: A government-run dental clinic has lost an appointment book that contains the personal information of about 383 patients. The Department of Health revealed the incident on Thursday, saying that the Li Po Chun Dental Clinic in Tai Kok Tsui had lost information related to bookings made from January to June 2015. The…
NZ: Privacy breach: More than 100 Hauora Tairāwhiti patient files in Gisborne missing
Ben Leahy reports: A Gisborne physiotherapist who lost more than 100 patient files from her practice has been found guilty of misconduct due to the risk to her patients’ privacy. Jane Moore committed the privacy breaches from 2012 to 2015 while working as a physiotherapist for Hauora Tairāwhiti district health board, according to a recent…