A Welsh home care provider has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act after the files of 10 vulnerable and elderly people were found on a street in Neath Port Talbot. The news follows an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into the data loss by Neath Care in August 2013. The…
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StayWell breach affects over 12,000; how many more not disclosed (update1)
A breach at StayWell Health Management in 2012 resulted in at least three HIPAA-covered entities notifying patients, members, or employees. The incident was posted to HHS’s public breach tool in an update this week. According to HHS’s entries, Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan notified 10,024 members while Clorox Company Group Insurance Plan notified 520 members and…
Some pharmacy breaches we didn't know about
While going through NYS’s response to a FOI request I submitted, I came across a breach submitted by American Express that affected 49 people. Because it’s less than 500, it would not appear on HHS’s breach tool, and I never saw anything in the media about it. Reportedly, the breach involved malware intrusions affecting two…
Sutherland burglars snagged City of Hope patient data (updated)
Among those affected by the burglary at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions were an undisclosed number of City of Hope patients. You can read City of Hope’s notification letter on the California Attorney General’s website. Patient information on the unencrypted computers included patients’ names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, account number and/or diagnoses. City…
PA: Security breach compromises credit-card info of Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology patients
Adam Smeltz reports: An online security breach might have compromised the credit-card information of several thousand patients at a Bloomfield-based medical group. Partners in Nephrology & Endocrinology on Liberty Avenue confirmed the breach Wednesday, saying someone hacked into a vendor’s systems that process credit-card payments for the specialist practice. Read more on TribLive. A detailed…
CA: Transient sentenced for theft of computers from AHMC Healthcare
Brian Day reports that the transient who stole two laptops from AHMC Healthcare containing 729,000 patients’ information has been sentenced: Christopher Lee Brown, 37, received a sentence of 4 years and 8 months from Judge Jared Moses in the Alhambra branch of Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles County District Attorney’s officials said in…