KDLT reports that Sioux Falls VA Health Care System is notifying veterans that their personal information may have been compromised in a potential breach of privacy: Sioux Falls VA Officials say on June 4, 2015 a list of patients was reproduced whose February 2015 prescription fill documents cannot be located. Officials say the fill documents…
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UK: Community Transport (Brighton,Hove & Area) Ltd signs undertaking after ICO investigation reveals data protection deficiencies
The Information Commissioner (ICO) was informed on February 12, 2015 that a removable hard drive containing personal data had been taken home by a member of staff and that the employee had subsequently failed to return it. The removable hard drive contained a back-up of Community Transport Ltd’s customer database, which contained 4,138 individual records….
UK: Confusion over patient data on lost hospital stick
It seemed like a straightforward breach disclosure, but apparently there’s still some confusion swirling around what happened with an East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust USB stick that was found by a member of the public. The Eastbourne Herald reports: The husband of a woman whose confidential patient details were found on a memory stick which…
MA: McLean Hospital Notifies Research Participants of a Privacy Incident
Belmont, MA July 28 – McLean Hospital announced today that it is notifying individuals related to a privacy incident involving information maintained as part of a research program. This incident did not involve any patient information from McLean’s medical records system. On May 29, 2015, McLean learned that four backup data tapes related to the Harvard Brain…
Patient data included on missing thumb drive, OhioHealth says
Ben Sutherly reports: Sensitive data for nearly 1,000 valve-replacement candidates and research subjects at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital might have been compromised when an unencrypted thumb drive came up missing. The data include patients’ names, medical-record numbers, insurance companies, physicians, addresses, dates of birth, referral and treatment dates, and types of procedures conducted on them….
Ca: Student loan data breach class action lawsuit can expand, Federal Court rules
The Canadian Press reports: The Federal Court of Appeal has ordered the expansion of a class action lawsuit brought by thousands of students whose personal loan data was lost by the federal government. And the lawyer representing the students says that decision could have far-reaching implications for other similar cases. Read more on CBC News….