ChrisD reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach. The WRHA says a home care employee had a bag stolen from her vehicle containing employees’ daily schedule of activities, including personal health information for her clients on March 26. The forms that were in the bag may have contained…
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Follow-up: Adventist Health Physician’s Network fined $40,000 for 2018 breach incident
Jeremy Childs reports: Adventist Health Physician’s Network, a hospital in Simi Valley, was fined $40,000 as part of a civil privacy settlement this week, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. The settlement stems from an incident in October 2018 when private medical files were found inside a storage unit in Simi Valley. The…
NZ: West Coast health board in privacy blunder involving medical information
Joanne Naish reports: The West Coast District Health Board (DHB) has been accused of breaching patients’ privacy after giving private medical information to the wrong person. It is the second time the DHB has come under fire after documents containing information about hundreds of patients were found blowing around a Christchurch street in 2019. Read more…
UK: Solicitor caught dumping client files in the street
The SRA has fined a solicitor for dumping rubbish bags containing client information outside his office. Trevor Nicholas Senkatuka was the sole practitioner of the now-defunct firm, Windsor Croft Solicitors, in Essex. The local council fined him for fly-tipping on the pavement outside his office. Council workers took photographs of the bags which revealed that they contained private client information. “The public would…
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…
NC: SSA first sends confidential records to the wrong people, then refuses credit monitoring
Nate Morabito reports: Despite mistakenly sending confidential personal records to the wrong people, the Social Security Administration refused to offer free credit monitoring to those whose identities were compromised, but the federal agency appears to now have changed its stance. As we reported Friday, several people from Charlotte confirmed SSA sent their original documents to…