Updated Feb. 22, 2019. DataBreaches.net was notified that HHS had finally removed the disputed listing from their portal. But when I checked, I found that it had not really been removed. OCR had closed its case and moved the entry to its archived list, with the following note: On November 13, 2018, OCR received a…
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MO: Woman sues SSM Health over alleged privacy violation
ABC17 reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog. A Holts Summit woman is suing SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital after she claims it didn’t do enough to protect the privacy of her medical records. According to the lawsuit filed in Cole County, the patient, referred to as “T.K,” received a letter…
Boxes of private, personal records left exposed in government office for weeks
CBC News reports: Fifty boxes of records containing “sensitive personal information” spent nearly three weeks sitting in a central area of the Grand Falls-Windsor Department of Transportation and Works depot this spring, according to Donovan Molloy, the province’s privacy commissioner. “It’s one of the most serious inadvertent breaches that I’ve seen in my term as…
NJ: Summit Medical Group notifies patients about missing notebook
Anthony Vecchione reports: Summit Medical Group said Monday it is looking into an incident of a possible security leak of patient data. SMG said it became aware of the potential unauthorized disclosure of patient medical records Sept. 5 when management and privacy office personnel were notified a notebook maintained by a medical assistant in the…
Ca: Department Failed To Follow Directive Following Privacy Breach: Molloy
Oh …. (insert your preferred three-letter acronym). VOCM reports from St. John’s, NL: The privacy commissioner has found a government department not only committed a privacy breach, but that it failed to follow a subsequent directive from the commissioner. Donovan Molloy says the Department of Transportation and Works relocated a number of paper records to…
IE: Shock as man stumbles across confidential documents from Beaumont Hospital at side of road in Co Louth
Ailbhe Daly reports: A man told of his shock last night after finding confidential medical records at the side of a road. Jimmy McGuirk stumbled across the documents from the A&E of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital on Friday as he picked up litter in Baltray, Co Louth. The 63-year-old said the files contained information on 29…