Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient…
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TX: Personal info still being discarded and dumped improperly
Courtney Schoenemann reports that a security analyst who goes dumpster diving in his spare time, came across a filing cabinet of account receivables from an Austin home remodeling company that had been dumped by an as-yet unnamed company: “Their routing numbers, bank account numbers, some had their driver’s license numbers on their checks. Everything you…
TX: Sensitive documents found strewn about on Houston street
Andy Cerota reports that trash blowing around on Brittmore Road near Hammerly Boulevard in Houston turned out to be thousands of documents on the side of the road, may with personal and sensitive information. Thursday morning. It’s not clear from the reporting who was responsible for all those records. Read more on Click2Houston.
Oklahoma man pleads guilty to using stolen medical records for identity theft
KXII reports: One of two men suspected of of using stolen medical records to commit identity theft has pleaded guilty in federal court. 34-year-old Robert Bond of Thackerville pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Read more on KXII. The report doesn’t indicate from where the medical records were stolen,…
SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association programming error resulted in mismailed information
From their press release: SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association (“SAMBA”) recently learned of an incident that may affect information related to eligible family members of subscribers (“family members”) covered by the SAMBA Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan in 2017. “We take this incident, and member privacy, very seriously,” Walter E. Wilson, SAMBA’s Executive Director stated….
Hospitals Are Throwing Sensitive Patient Information Out With the Recycling
Kristen V. Brown reports: …. Researchers conducted a “recycling audit” of five hospitals in Toronto between November 2014 and May 2016 and found that frequently hospitals improperly threw out sensitive patient information. All the hospitals had policies designed to get rid of confidential patient health information without potentially exposing it, along with shredders to get the…