WKRN reports: TennCare, Gainwell Technologies LLC, and Axis Direct, Inc. announced a privacy breach impacting certain TennCare members in a joint statement on Monday. According to the statement, around 3,300 Medicaid members in the state of Tennessee have been notified of a privacy issue that may have impacted their health information. Gainwell, which runs the…
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UK: Assurances sought Moray ambulance staff hit by data breach are receiving support
Alistair reports: Moray MP Douglas Ross is seeking an update from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) after again being contacted by the whistleblower who first revealed the data information breach. The SAS launched a probe when the matter was first highlighted by the Press and Journal in October, revealing that highly personal information about employees had been…
AU: How paper created a vulnerability for cyber criminals to steal 186,000 people’s data
Lucy Cormack reports: When the personal data of 186,000 people was breached in a phishing attack on Service NSW in March, the weakness cyber criminals were able to exploit was actually paper. Passports, banking and Medicare details were potentially exposed in photocopied and scanned paper documents stored inside the email accounts of 47 Service NSW…
Investigation launched after hundreds of confidential patient details from Lloyd Pharmacy were sent to a woman in the post
Jessica Sansome reports: A woman received a parcel from Lloyds Pharmacy containing hundreds of prescription records – exposing confidential patient information. She believes the box from Lloyds Pharmacy was meant to be delivered to NHS prescriptions services in Bolton, Greater Manchester. Read more on Manchester Evening News.
400 patient records lost after cabinet at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital mistakenly removed by contractor
Zoe Low reports: A filing cabinet containing more than 400 patient records was suspected to have been mistakenly disposed of by a contractor at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital last Friday. The locked four-drawer steel cabinet was used to store the service records of 442 elderly patients who had received “integrated care and discharge support”…
Cork hospital fined €65k after patients’ personal data found in public recycling facility
Cianan Brennan reports: The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has handed down a €65,000 fine to Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) after the personal data of 78 of its patients was discovered disposed of in a public recycling facility elsewhere in the county. The complaint was first raised with the DPC in June 2019 after a…