Robert Fucci reports that Concord, Massachusetts is first notifying 70,000 people whose information was on 108 hard drives that went missing in 2019. It’s taken them until now to figure out whom to notify, it seems. “We’ve been waiting on some data from our attorney who has worked on this with us,” Crane said. “We…
Category: Lost or Missing
UK: Hospital medic lost boxes of private patient data while conducting study without approval
Jonathan Humphries reports: A senior medic has been suspended after running a clinical trial using sensitive medical information without permission of his hospital. Miguel Martin Garcia, a band 8 physiotherapist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, used patient consent forms headed with the trust’s branding and carted off boxes of patient records to a private practice. His decision…
Florissant dialysis center faces class-action lawsuit after I-Team investigates
PJ Randhawa reports: A popular Florissant dialysis clinic is the subject of a class-action lawsuit after an I-Team report uncovered the facility “lost” the medical records of up to 60 patients. In July, the I-Team found dozens of private medical records for DaVita Dialysis patients dumped behind an abandoned building in north St. Louis. We…
A first in Canada: Class action over loss of personal information dismissed on the merits
Stéphane Pitre, Anne Merminod, Alexandra Hebert, Alexis Leray of BLG Law Firm write: On March 26, 2021, the Superior Court rendered a landmark judgment dealing with the loss of personal information, Lamoureux c. OCRCVM, 2021 QCCS 1093. Madam Justice Florence Lucas, J.C.S. dismisses the class action filed by the plaintiff, Danny Lamoureux in its entirety in…
Florida: Personal and Prescription Information Found on Side of Road
Heather Crawford reports that First Coast News has been investigating papers found on the side of the road in St. Johns County. The papers, that included a prescription bag with prescription records and a nursing home’s information, appeared to come from a luxury senior living community in Jacksonville. “The pharmacy name on everything is Guardian…
University of Colorado responds to Accellion breach
California-based Accellion has already released statements about a breach they experienced. And they have already been hit with at least one lawsuit over the breach. But we are still first learning about how some of their clients were impacted. Today we learned that the University of Colorado is investigating whether there was any personal, confidential,…