Kimberley Haas reports: Personal information for close to 160 volunteers in Dover’s school district — including their fingerprint cards and social security numbers — was “mistakenly destroyed” this fall, according to city officials. Between early September and the beginning of last month, a janitor working for S.J. Services in Danvers, Mass., bagged up numerous postmarked…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield mailing error disclosed 1,872 dental claims statements to other members
AP reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska said Thursday that it mistakenly disclosed personal dental claims information in statements to more than 1,800 customers. The company said a printing error caused some dental explanation of benefits forms to be sent to the wrong customers. The forms reveal treatment and services that the insurer paid…
OH: Thousands Of Medical Records Containing Confidential Info Found In Dumpster
Maureen Kocot reports: A good Samaritan says he was surprised when he discovered thousands of documents marked confidential in a dumpster. 10TV examined the documents and found medical records containing patients’ social security numbers, dates of birth, as well as detailed information about medical conditions and prescriptions. […] The Ohio Medical Board says it has…
IL: Mailing error by contractor discloses ‘limited’ personal info of 3,000 Centegra patients
Stephen DiBenedetto reports: Medical bills detailing “limited” personal information of 3,000 Centegra Health System patients recently were sent to the wrong addresses because of a mailroom error at a third-party contractor, a Centegra spokeswoman said. The mailing error happened Nov. 2 at MedAssets, a Georgia-based vendor Centegra contracts, during routine maintenance. A setting on automatic…
‘We complained to Santander CEO of data breach – and were sent documents of three other customers’
Nicole Blackmore reports: Santander has been labelled “incompetent” after a string of errors that saw it lose a couple’s mortgage documents and instead send them letters containing four different customers’ private information in a “gross breach” of data protection laws. Read more on The Telegraph.
TX: State sues defunct health care management firm after health records found in recycling bin
Patrick Danner reports: A defunct home health care management company that was based in San Antonio has been sued by the state over clients’ personal information found in a recycling container at Stevenson Middle School. Files belonging to Alliance Health Management & Consulting Inc. were recovered by Northside Independent School District police officers on July 14, 2014,…