Samuel Hardiman and Reece Ristau report: Tulsa Public Schools may have violated multiple current or former students’ privacy rights afforded under federal law if it failed to protect confidential student records a Tulsa woman said she found in large metal trash receptacles behind McKinley Elementary School on Sunday evening. The records include gifted and talented…
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AU:Sexual assault victim’s medical records given to wrong person
Another small-N breach with huge consequences. Chris O’Keefe reports: Ryde Hospital is at the centre of a gross breach of privacy, after the medical records of a sexual assault victim were mistakenly handed to another patient. A young woman was discharged from the hospital in Sydney’s North last week after presenting with a stomach bug….
Russian blogger uncovers a treasure trove of police records at an abandoned station in Moscow
Meduza reports: On August 16, blogger Lana Sator, a self-described “urbex [urban exploration] tourist” published photographs from an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, which once housed a police station and office of the (now dissolved) Federal Migration Service. Sator says she crawled into the two-story building through an open window. The building was unguarded…
NSW Health privacy breach: ‘horrified’ families waiting for answers about patient files found in derelict building
Following up on their earlier reporting, Ange McCormack of Triple j Hack reports that documents left improperly at the Garrawarra center for the aged remain on the floor while “safety procedures around potential asbestos contamination of the site is underway.” Take a look at the scene there: And pictures from other rooms, shown in their…
St. Mary’s Hospital Campus in Jefferson City notifies 301,000 of limited PHI left behind in a 2014 move
And this is why I always wait to close out monthly stats in healthcare. The following incident just showed up on HHS’s public breach tool today as having been reported to them on July 30, and affecting 301,000 patients. St. Mary’s Hospital’s notice, below, indicates that the entity was not sure of the number affected. …
NSW: ‘Disturbing’ privacy breach revealed: Over 1,000 NSW Health medical records abandoned in derelict building
Ange McCormack reports: More than 1,000 confidential medical records have been left on the floor at a derelict former aged care facility operated by the New South Wales Government. The privacy breach, uncovered in a triple j Hack and ABC News investigation, is believed to be one of the largest of its kind in Australian…