The Moray Council has signed an undertaking to improve data protection following an incident in July 2013 when a bundle of papers with personal and sensitive personal data was left in a local café. The papers related to a Moray Permanence Panel hearing and contained detailed reports regarding the adoption of two children, as well as shorter reports relating to 19 further…
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MLB's A-Rod inquiry: Investigators were told documents were stolen, but bought records anyway, officials say
I have previously noted developments in the case of Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) and Major League Baseball’s investigation of him because records with health information were involved. On some level, I think I view this case as workplace issue and how far employers can go to investigate drug or substance use. By now, most people know…
Catholic Health Initiatives victim of DNS hijack; doctors' e-mails redirected (updated)
Natasha Chen reports that Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), some of whose doctors fell for a phishing scheme in January that compromised patient information in e-mails sent to and by the doctors, has fallen victim to an attack that also involved doctors’ e-mail accounts: For the second time in five months, patients’ information may have been compromised…
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center breach
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California notified 2,523 patients of a breach involving their business associates, Courier Express/Atlanta, Courier Express/Charlotte & Courier Express US, Inc. The breach, which occurred on February 14, was reported to HHS as involving “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of paper records. There is no statement that I could find on…
Court dismisses most of lawsuit over 2011 TRICARE/SAIC data breach
Andrew Scurria reports the latest on a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest breaches ever involving PHI – the theft of backup tapes from SAIC from an employee’s unattended vehicle in 2011. A D.C. federal judge on Friday gutted a wide-ranging multidistrict case seeking damages from the U.S. Department of Defense and security contractor Science…
UK: Surgery apologizes for exposing patient information on the Internet
Ugh. The Daily Echo reports: A Hampshire doctors’ surgery has apologised after confidential data about more than 100 patients was made public. A major IT glitch resulted in information about patients at the Fordingbridge Surgery, including their names, addresses and NHS numbers, accidentally appearing online. A house-hunter was researching a property in the area when an Internet…