CBS reports: About 30 pieces of incoming mail were stolen from the mailboxes outside the DMV Riverside Call Center and DMV East Riverside Field Offices, DMV officials said Friday in an alert to customers. The thefts happened during the weekends of March 21 and March 28 and may have involved personal information from customers, DMV…
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HHS Settles Charges Against Cornell Prescription Pharmacy Over Disposal of Records
Cornell Prescription Pharmacy (Cornell) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Cornell will pay $125,000 and adopt a corrective action plan to correct deficiencies in its HIPAA compliance program….
OH: Springfield Regional Medical Center patients notified of #HIPAA breach due to mailing error
Katie Wedell reports: Community Mercy Health Partners, operator of the Springfield Regional Medical Center, has alerted patients to a data breach that occurred in February. Invoices for about 2,000 patients containing names, addresses, billing codes such as diagnosis and procedural codes, service dates and locations, and account balances were inadvertently sent to incorrect people. Read more on…
IE: Photocopies of college students’ passports left in a skip on busy street
TheJournal.ie reports: Photocopies of sensitive information belonging to students were left in a skip bag outside a Dublin college. The bag was left outside the Dublin College for Advanced Studies (DCAS), a private college on Dublin’s Capel Street. Speaking to TheJournal.ie this evening, John Ryan, the director of studies at DCAS said that the files had been left…
CA: VA hospital in Long Beach may have improperly disposed of patients’ information
Leanne Suter reports: Documents containing the personal information of veterans seeking treatment at the Veterans Affairs Long Beach Hospital may have been improperly disposed, Veterans Affairs officials said. Army veteran and hospital patient Paulnhu Nguyen said he found a large stack of patient records containing personal information, such as social security numbers, date of births…
CA: Hundreds Of Dental Records Found In Vacant Building
Christine O’Donnell reports that hundreds of dental records with patients’ addresses, insurance information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and drivers license numbers were found in what appears to be a vacant building in Orange. Of concern, the building has broken windows and homeless people have been observed going in and out of it for a while…