Disclosure of personal information, even without demonstration of misuse of the information, creates de facto injury under FCRA Court vacates and remands Justia provides a summary of an opinion issued by the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that revives a potential class action lawsuit again a New Jersey health insurer. The litigation stemmed from…
Category: Theft
Five breaches involving health data disclosed in one day?
Breaches involving health data in 2017 are continuing where 2016 left off – there are too many of them. In addition to the breaches reported earlier today on this site involving Catholic Charities of Baltimore and Complete Wellness (also in Baltimore), we also learned about three other breaches involving health data: The Center for Mental Health in Montana…
OCR settles charges against MAPFRE Life Insurance for $2.2 million
As breaches go, the theft of a USB drive with ePHI on 2,209 insurance members doesn’t sound like a lot, but The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced a settlement with MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico because of what they found when they investigated the breach…
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group notify parents of laptop theft
On December 21, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group learned that a laptop had been stolen from a locked car of one of the physicians. The laptop, which contained minor children’s protected health information, was unencrypted. According to a notification letter dated January 13, a copy of which was…
UK: £150,000 fine for insurance company that failed to keep customers’ information safe
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The ICO has fined Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC (RSA) £150,000 following the loss of the personal information of nearly 60,000 customers. An ICO investigation looked at the theft of a hard drive device containing 59,592 customers’ names, addresses and bank account details including account numbers and sort codes. The device…
OH: Henry County home health and hospice patients’ records stolen
More than 500 patients served by Henry County Health Department Home Health and Hospice are being notified after a nurse’s laptop and paperwork was stolen from her garaged car on October 22. An arrest has reportedly been made in the case, but the laptop and papers were not recovered. According to the Toledo Blade and WNWO, the laptop…