Johanna Weidner reports: Personal information for thousands of children was mailed to strangers in an OHIP privacy breach. The province confirmed Thursday that all the incorrectly printed health card renewal notices it mailed belonged to children who have a birth date in early July. A printing mistake on the double-sided form resulted in a mismatch…
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Ontario government scrambling after printing mistake causes data breach affecting thousands
Vito Pilieci reports: The provincial government is scrambling to notify thousands of Ontarians that they have been victims of a data breach that has exposed the health card numbers, birth dates and homes addresses of at least 5,600 people. Anne-Marie Flanagan, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, admitted the breach after the…
Ca: Chatham-Kent Health Alliance discloses March privacy incident
Matt Weverink reports: Two months after a privacy breach took place at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, the hospital is now reporting the incident to the public. Hospital officials say on March 6, 2017, a document containing sensitive health information about seven patients was found on the front lawn of a community member. The document was…
Pentucket Medical notifies employees and patients of data security incident
Speaking of confusing incident reports, Pentucket Medical in Massachusetts reported a somewhat confusing incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. It seems that on January 18, four boxes of mainly physician/clinician records were removed from CubeSmart Storage Facility by another client of the facility. Why that client might knowingly remove those cartons, and how…
AU: Patient privacy breach: over 1600 medical letters found dumped in Sydney bin
Kate Aubusson reports: More than 700 public patients have had their privacy breached and potential delays in their follow up care after more than 1600 medical letters were found dumped in Sydney bin. NSW Health is investigating the incident involving a sub-contractor for a company tasked with transcribing medical letters sent from specialists to general practitioners,…
Amedisys Home Health notifies patients after shredding bins found off-site
Amedisys Home Health of Fayetteville was recently informed that two bins used for collecting shredded materials from the Fayetteville care center were found in an enclosure behind a local business, and did not reach the vendor’s intended destination to a secure shredding facility. Read more on The Montgomery Herald.