Richard Deschamps of radio station CJAD reports: If you’ve ever gotten a traffic ticket from the city of Montreal, there’s a good chance it, along with a lot of your personal information, might have wound up in a place where anyone looking to steal personal information might have had access to it. An investigation by…
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VA: Medical records blowing in the wind
CBS 6 reports that hundreds of medical records from patients at Richmond Dermatology and Laser Specialists were blowing around a parking lot. The records included, “patient lists, insurance information, social security information, phone numbers and treatment records that included one patient being treated for the herpes STD.” So how did the medical office respond when…
First we threaten the reporters….?
Kristen Ross of KBTX has a 3-part series on improper disposal of medical records in paper format. Part 1 describes hundreds of medical records floating around a dumpster that included names, addresses, social security numbers and medicaid numbers. Those documents were from the Daniel Jarvis Home Health Agency. According to Ross, attorneys for the home…
IN: Goshen attorney dumps client files in the trash
Justin Leighty of The Elkhart Truth reports that confidential client files from attorney Joe Lehman’s office were just dumped in the trash. The files contained personal and financial information, and were disposed of during a move the office was making. What’s somewhat dumbfounding is that the attorney claimed he didn’t know that there was any…
N.B. says privacy policy violated after health records vanished
CBC News in Canada reports: The New Brunswick government is acknowledging that its privacy policies were not followed after the health records of 203 people went missing from a regional health authority in February. Acting health minister Kelly Lamrock said Friday that senior officials in the Department of Health should have been told immediately. That’s…
MD: State employee information lost in the mail
Gadi Dechter of The Baltimore Sun reports: The names and Social Security numbers of about 8,000 state employees and retirees were in a report “lost in the mail” this month, raising concerns about identity theft and questions about why sensitive information was sent through the postal service rather than electronically. […] On March 3, the…