Why are we still reading reports of devices with unencrypted patient information being stolen from providers’ unattended vehicles? This is the second report this month I’ve read like this. And while it’s one thing to inform patients that you believe the device was stolen for commercial value and not contents, does this letter go too far…
Category: Theft
TX: Thief steals personal information belonging to dozens of children
Renee Santos reports that a binder with identity information on 30 Texas Toros football team players was stolen in a smash and grab of the coach’s truck in a parking lot. The team is part of a children’s “Greater San Antonio American youth football league,” and the binder held registration money and the “birth certificates and…
Sabinsa sues former employee for data theft
Shane Starling reports: Multinational botanicals giant Sabinsa is suing a former employee, Binoy Mathew, and the managing director of BioActives, the firm with whom he allegedly shared stolen customer lists, technical and other data. Read more on Nutraingredients.
AZ: Laptop stolen from EXOS contained protected health information
EXOS (formerly known as Athletes’ Performance) recently notified HHS of a laptop theft affecting 854 clients. The incident was reported to HHS on July 28, but was only added to the public breach tool today. In a letter dated August 1, which EXOS was kind enough to provide to DataBreaches.net, Garrett Felix, Information Security Officer for EXOS, writes, in part: Recently, we learned…
UK: Patients warned of ‘shocking’ data breach after nurse’s bag stolen from car in Cambridge
Cambridge News reports: Patients have been warned of a potential breach of their data after a nurse’s car was broken into and her handbag stolen. An out of hours car, used by a community nurse with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), was broken into on July 9 while parked outside a patient’s home in east Chesterton…
Psychiatrist’s laptop stolen; patients notified (UPDATED)
Brian Halevie-Goldman, a psychiatrist involved in the BALCO dope-prescribing scandal in major league sports, recently notified HHS of a stolen laptop containing information on 2000 patients. I can find no substitute notice or other information at this time, and this post will be updated if I do find something. Casewatch summarized some of Halevie-Goldman’s prior…