WRDW reports: The director of the non-profit organization, Community in Action, left town and abandoned donations along with her clients’ personal information. Her landlord discovered copies clients’ social security cards, drivers’ licenses and birth certificates left in the home. Trish Wilcher took back possession of her rental home just a few weeks ago. She rented…
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UK: Dozens of Newcastle patients’ medical records go missing after van blunder
Keiran Southern reports: Confidential medical records belonging to dozens of North East patients have gone missing from Tyneside hospitals. The documents were taken after being left unsecured in a van outside a property in Fenham, Newcastle. Thieves stole the vehicle holding 143 private medical records of patients at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Freeman Hospital and Campus for…
IE: Patient documents must have ‘blown out of’ doctor’s hand
The Dundalk Democrat reports: Councillor Tomás Sharkey has hit out at the latest breach of patient privacy in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. “Last week patients and their families received calls from management of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The call was to apologise for the fact that personal files, found in a public place…
Records from juvenile program run by Sheriff’s Office found dumped in Detroit
Gus Burns reports: The Wayne County Sheriff’s Department is looking into the discovery of illegally dumped records in Detroit Tuesday that originated from an at-risk juvenile program the agency operated. WDIV-TV, Channel 4 News On Tuesday learned about “piles” of juvenile records including pictures, phone numbers and “other sensitive information.” Wayne County denied there was any…
So you found some records in the street? Now what do you do?
Sometimes people who find documents with personal information don’t know to whom to return them. Other times, they may know, but refuse to return them or stall in returning them. And yet others may decide to go to the media. Why people make the choices they make is beyond the scope of this blog, but…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…