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….
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Brit doctors surgery fined £35k for leaving medical records just lying around for more than 18 months
Paul Kunert reports: Bayswater Medical Centre (BMC) in London is licking its wounds after taking a not insignificant punch to the wallet for discarding highly sensitive medical information in an empty building for a year and a half. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today the data included medical records, prescriptions and patient identifiable medicine….
NY: 50 case files from Dept. of Social Services may have been exposed to data breach
Danny Spewak reports: Fifty case files with sensitive information about Erie County constituents were potentially exposed to the public during two separate instances in 2017, according to a letter sent this week from the Department of Social Services to the county legislature. […] A total of 37 Adult Protective Services case files were found in…
Personal information found in dumpster behind tax prep office in Lancaster County
Brian Roche reports: The personal information of roughly two dozen people was found in an open dumpster in Lancaster County. An anonymous tip a few days ago directed 8 On Your Side consumer reporter Brian Roche to the dumpster behind a Liberty Tax Service office on Willow Street Pike that just closed last week. Read…
MAXIMUS notifies 3,029 patients after Business Ink mailing error exposes PHI
The following was the notification MAXIMUS sent out on April 17 and that they kindly provided to this site today. There was also a Spanish-language version: MAXIMUS today notified approximately 1,100 Texas families participating in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) of a printing error that resulted in some program participants receiving a…
NE: Complete Family Medicine advises patients of burglary
From their public notice: On March 1, 2018, the offices of Complete Family Medicine, LLC were burglarized. Later the same day, Complete Family Medicine discovered that the perpetrators stole numerous items including a computer component of a medical device used to conduct EKGs and uncashed patient checks that were stored in a locked safe. Law…