Back in December, 2014, I noted that HHS had added an incident involving Walgreens: Walgreen Co. reported that 160,000 patients had PHI involved in an August 1st – November 6th breach involving paper records. I was unable to find any coverage of this, but this could be big, as Walgreen has had problems before with paper records, and…
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Follow-Up: Company involved in NSUH-LIJ breach folded
In June, this site covered a breach affecting approximately 18,000 patients of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Unencrypted patient data, including SSN and clinical information, had been on five laptops stolen from Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ to process and collect payments owed by insurers to the hospital system. At the…
OCR closes case on Lanap & Dental Implants of Pennsylvania patient data breach
In 2013, I reported on a patient data breach involving LANAP & Implant Center. I followed up on the breach because although 11,000 patients had their unencrypted personal information uploaded to PirateBay, Dr. DiGiallorenzo had seemingly not notified all patients that their information had been compromised and remained at risk of download by criminals on…
W.W. Grainger issues password reset for users of their mobile app
Industrial supply company W.W. Grainger has issued a password reset after discovering a coding error in their mobile app that put usernames and passwords at risk. Nicely done: At Grainger, we take data privacy and security very seriously. As part of a system review, Grainger’s IT team recently identified a coding error in the Grainger.com mobile apps…
GA: IT staffer fired in data breach affecting 6 million Georgia voters
Kristina Torres reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp will issue an alert this afternoon formally notifying more than 6 million Georgia voters that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, were illegally released last month by his office. The decision to send the notification comes two days after his office was alerted…
Suit accuses Georgia of massive data breach involving 6 million voters (updated)
Kristina Torres reports: Two Georgia women have filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach by Secretary of State Brian Kemp involving the Social Security numbers and other private information of more than six million voters statewide. The suit, filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges Kemp’s office released the information including…