I wouldn’t recommend starting a breach notification letter with “Please take notice that,” but in light of what follows, maybe it was appropriate in this case. It seems that Orthopaedic Specialty Institute wasn’t the only entity that had patient records that had been stored with Iron Mountain stolen. Long Beach Internal Medical Group posted a…
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Milpitas youth football players' birth certificates stolen in Hayward
And once again, we see volunteers being given sensitive personal information without any requirement that they protect the data properly. Gabriela De Anda reports: The parents of more than 80 young athletes in the Milpitas Knights PAL Youth Football program received a troubling e-mail Aug. 8. The president of the league sent an apology stating…
UK: Email error by Kent Social Care Professionals compromises safety of dozens of vulnerable people
Thom Morris reports: Codes for key safes and names, addresses and telephone numbers of dozens of elderly and vulnerable people were accidentally sent out on an email. As many as 120 people under the care of Kent Social Care Professionals (KentSCP) had their safety compromised after the list was unintentionally distributed to almost 200 people….
NY: Nurse gets 4 to 12 years in Albany Medical Center ID theft case
Robert Gavin reports: A licensed practical nurse was sentenced four to 12 years in state prison Tuesday for her role in stealing the identities of dozens of mostly elderly patients. Suzette Guzman-Moore and her boyfriend Emmett Woods were arrested May 7 for their roles in a scheme authorities said preyed on at least 50 patients. Read more on TimesUnion.com
Ca: Newfoundland health authority says botched fax breached privacy of 52 patients
Faxing errors continue to contribute to privacy breaches. The Canadian Press reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s second largest health authority is apologizing to 52 patients for a privacy breach it blames on a botched fax number. Central Health Authority says medical information was mistakenly faxed as an email to a 1-800 number instead of a 1-866 number….
BioReference Laboratories notified over 3,000 patients after misconfigured server allowed their info to be indexed by search engines
Recently added to HHS’s public breach tool was a misconfigured server incident that affected 3,334 patients. The entity’s statement was posted on their web site: We at BioReference Laboratories, Inc., and our subsidiary CareEvolve, Inc., take very seriously our responsibility to protect the privacy and security of our patients’ personal information, as required by the…