Associated Dermatology and Skin Cancer Clinic of Helena notified 1,254 patients of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information. On May 26, an Associated Dermatology employee learned that someone had broken into her car and taken a journal she had been keeping for personal use to assist her in her care of Associated…
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UK: Anger after data of hundreds of patients at GP practice is sent out in post
Lewis Clarke reports: Data of hundreds of residents who had not had an NHS health check have been sent to a patient by mistake. The data breach was discovered by staff at Amicus Health which runs Clare House Surgery on June 15 when a list containing the name, date of birth, age and gender of…
Firefighter personnel records found tossed on floor of condemned Yonkers firehouse
Christopher J. Eberhart reports: Records containing firefighters’ personal information — including Social Security numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers — were found in the condemned firehouse in downtown Yonkers. The personnel records were misfiled under the previous administration, according to Fire Commissioner Robert Sweeney, and left in the New School Street firehouse before the Yonkers Fire…
Data breach of 1,000 patients lands former Long Beach VA worker in prison
Megan Barnes reports that more than 1,000 patients at the Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center had their information stolen by a now-former employee who has been sentenced to prison. Albert Torres was reportedly arrested on April 12 after officers became suspicious when his license plates were not those for a noncommercial vehicle. A search…
UK: Patient information stolen from Dorset HealthCare employee’s car
Josh Wright reports: The loss of medical information relating to as many as 50 patients has sparked fears about the security of people’s private records. Personal details belonging to between 11 and 50 patients of the trust which were kept on a notepad were stolen along with a laptop belonging to a Poole-based employee of…
NY: Monroe County Clerk tossing personal, sensitive DMV customer information in the trash
WHEC has the story, brought to them by a consumer who observed employees just tossing records with personal information: Mottshaw says he refuses to give his social security number out because his identity has been stolen before. When he was at the DMV in Henrietta he says he saw employees throw documents in the garbage….