Joseph Goedert reports: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, N.Y., recently notified 130,495 patients of a breach of their protected health information after seven CDs a business associate FedEx’d were lost (see story). In a statement to Health Data Management, the hospital, part of NYC Health and Hospitals Corp., explains why the data…
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Health Net to pay Conn. $250,000 in settlement
Cara Baruzzi reports: Health Net will pay the state at least $250,000 and implement stronger consumer protections to settle allegations the insurer failed to secure medical records, financial information and other private data on more than 440,000 Connecticut members, state officials said Tuesday. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who sued the company in the wake of…
Bank of New York Mellon granted summary judgment in lost backup tapes lawsuit
Brandon Tavelli writes: On June 25, 2010, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in Hammond v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., dismissing in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit arising from the…
New York hospital loses data on 130,000 via FedEx
Robert McMillan reports: New York’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit. The CDs were sent by the hospital’s billing processor, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, around March…
National Gypsum employees’ info on missing DVDs
Add National Gypsum to any list you may be keeping of entities who had data on the two unencrypted DVDs that went missing in the February when Towers Watson’s delivery system seemingly lost the DVDs. The company sent a notification (pdf) to its employees and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office at the beginning of…
St. Francis Federal Credit Union accounts may have been compromised
Saint Francis Federal Credit Union officials said that 8,400 account holders’ information may be at risk after the loss of a backup tape that contained customer information. Officials said the tape may have been destroyed during a “trash removal process,” but that they have been unable to confirm this. Read more on Tulsa World.