In August, 2014, I noted a report involving a transcription contractor of Boston Medical Center exposing patient information on the Internet. BMC notified approximately 15,000 patients and fired MDF Transcription Services because of the incident. Of note, BMC told patients in a notification letter that it had no reason to believe their information had been misused…
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FL: Medical records found scattered on Fort Myers street identified
WINK News reports: Hundreds of medical records from patients at Radiology Regional Center spilled out on Fowler Street earlier Saturday morning, causing a major traffic tie up. The records included financial accounting statements, old phone bills, invoices and front desk registration information. Read more on WINK News. A county employee seems not to have noticed that doors on the…
Medical Informatics data breach litigation centralized and transferred
Linn Freedman updates us all on litigation stemming from a breach previously reported on this site: We previously reported on the multiple data breach litigation suits filed against Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. following a data breach in May, 2015. On December 10, 2015, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized the nine pending suits—five pending…
UK: Unknown number of students hit by glitch that delivered SACE students wrong uni entry scores
Tim Williams reports: Education Minister Susan Close has admitted she does not know how many Year 12 students were affected by the SACE computer bungle that delivered the wrong university entrance scores. Some students were presented with someone else’s uni entrance details when they logged onto the SACE website on Tuesday morning, in an embarrassing privacy…
Ca: Breach forces shut down of LaSalle’s new online registration system
Julie Kotsis reports that the Town of LaSalle‘s new online recreation department registration system had a bug that exposed people’s personal information for almost one month until someone reported it to LaSalle, who then shut down the system. No financial information is stored in this system but personal data such as account holder names, names of children, addresses, phone…
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign sues the DNC
It wouldn’t be a presidential campaign without at least one data leak, right? So a contractor screws up, allowing Sanders’ staffers to access Clintons’ data on potential voters. Clinton campaign alleges the data were “stolen.” The DNC cuts off the Sanders’ campaign access to their own potential voter data. And in tonight’s chapter, the Sanders…