WKOW reports: Officials with Dean Health Plan say protected health data for nearly 1,000 members may have been breached after some documents sent to a bank were lost in transit. They say the affected documents included member identification numbers, member names, and procedure codes – no Social Security numbers or other financial information. Read…
Category: Lost or Missing
UK: Advocates upset at abuse inquiry data loss
Radio New Zealand reports: Child sex abuse survivors in Britain are calling for an investigation after discovering some testimonies may have been deleted due to a technical error. Claims of paedophiles in Westminster in the 1980s sparked the inquiry and cases under investigation could date back to the 1970s. But the inquiry’s website has said…
Ark., Md. Providers Notify Patients of Health Data Breaches
HealthITSecurity has reports on two HIPAA breaches reported to HHS. The first involved two employees of Baptist Health and Arkansas Health Group taking information on 6,500 patients with them to their new employer, Bray Family Health. The second incident involved a laptop missing from Johns Hopkins Medicine that contained health information for 571 cancer patients and 267 study participants. You can…
UK: York school admits data breach after unprotected memory stick is lost
Mike Laycock reports: A top public school in York has launched an investigation after a memory stick containing important data was lost, apparently on public transport. St Peter’s School says the device, which was not protected by a password, contained a number of documents ‘relating to the governance of the school.’ It says it is contacting a small…
Veterans Administration September report includes four breaches, each affecting multiple veterans
Okay, so maybe I jinxed things when I reported how well the Veterans Administration had done in August in reducing the number of breaches involving personal information. By September, it was back to same old, same old. Here’s a brief rundown on the breaches involving personal information of multiple individuals reported by the VA to Congress for the month of…
UK: 3,634 patients hit by East Sussex Healthcare Trust data breach
The Hastings & St. Leonards Observer reports that one of the trust’s consultants lost a thumb drive with data on over 3,600 patients. Hospital papers have revealed the confidential details of more than 3,500 patients were discovered on an unencrypted data stick. The incident was discussed at an East Sussex Healthcare Trust board meeting on…