From a notification WHS-Greene posted on their web site: It is with regret that we inform you that Washington Health System Greene recently experienced a security breach when an external hard drive for the Bone Densitometry machine, that contained patient information, was determined to be missing from our Radiology department. We discovered the external hard…
Category: Theft
Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois and Specialty Physicians of Illinois notify patients of payment records lost or stolen from storage facility
Their press release: December 12 – Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois (FPN Illinois) and Specialty Physicians of Illinois, LLC (formerly known as Wellgroup Health Partners, LLC, “SPI”) are notifying patients of a privacy breach. On November 21, 2017, it was confirmed that a limited number of boxes that contained 22,000 patient payment records could not be located…
Hard disk mysteriously stolen after DU compiled attendance of law students
Prawesh Lama reports: A computer’s hard disk along with its CPU was stolen from Law Faculty in Delhi University on December 3 — the day officials started compiling the attendance of faculty members and that of over 7,000 law students. The law faculty’s dean, Ved Kumari, in her complaint alleged that the stolen CPU contained…
Cape Cod students affected by Medicaid billing vendor’s data breach
Cynthia McCormick reports on the resolution of a lawsuit stemming from a laptop theft in 2014. The breach was previously reported on this site: Hundreds of Cape Cod students — many with special needs — were put at risk of identity fraud and theft when a laptop was stolen from an employee of a billing…
24,000 UNC Health Care patients affected by potential security breach
John Murawski reports: UNC Health Care is notifying 24,000 patients about a potential security breach at a UNC dermatology practice in Burlington. UNC said Friday that personal patient information was contained on a hard drive of a laptop computer that was stolen from UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center in October. The absence of the…
Mercy Health/Love County Hospital And Clinic Patients Notified Of Medical Records Incident
The press release below from Mercy Health/Love County Hospital is described as a supplement to an incident that they – and we – first reported in July. In September, the entity notified HHS that they had notified 13,004 patients, a notification that they reference below as a precautionary measure. I’m not sure why they needed…