Marianne Dimain reports: Ontario’s acting privacy commissioner is concerned after documents containing personal patient information were recently found scattered across a Toronto neighbourhood. Dozens of papers with patient names, addresses, phone numbers and social insurance numbers were found near Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue on Saturday, not far from North York General Hospital. Hospital staff…
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WI: Food service worker accused of stealing credit card info at Froedtert Hospital
Christina Palladino reports A food service worker is accused of taking an area couple’s credit card information to buy clothes and other things while they were in the hospital. […] According to court documents, the woman admitted to stealing credit information from patients about five times since March. Read more on WISN.
Oops! Health Insurer Exposes Member Data
Natasha Singer reports: Earlier this year, OfficeMax became a little too personal with one customer, sending a mailing to a man in Chicago with a street address that, after his own name, inadvertently included information about a family tragedy: “daughter killed in car crash or Current Business.” (An OfficeMax spokesman later blamed a third-party data broker the…
Statement on recent Visionworks privacy issue affecting 75,000 customers (update2)
Statement on recent Visionworks privacy issueSAN ANTONIO, Nov. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Visionworks, Inc. recently learned of an incident that may involve personal information of individuals who have received services at the vision retail chain’s Jennifer Square, Annapolis, Md. location. An investigation is currently underway to locate a missing database server, which was replaced on June 2, 2014 during scheduled upgrades. The…
NZ: Confidential notes found on driveway
Sarah Argyle reports: Confidential information found on a residential driveway has breached the privacy of 11 North Shore Hospital patients. A document with information including the names, gender, age, national health insurance number, diagnosis and additional notes was found stuck to a Forrest Hill driveway on Auckland’s North Shore. Read more on Stuff. Waitemata District Health…
Other breaches reported by HHS
The following breaches were reported on HHS’s breach tool, but no media coverage or statements have been found to provide additional details. If you have additional information on any of these, please use the Comments section to let me know. Thomas Cristello, Chiropractor PC in New York reported that 914 patients had information on a portable…