As submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office: On March 23, 2018, the Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) Privacy Office received confirmation that your Protected Health Information had been shared with an insurance broker who was not authorized to receive it. The disclosure occurred in November 2017, during the 2018 Medicare Annual Enrollment Period,…
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College Consultants’ Client Information Was Exposed on Web Servers
Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz reports: User names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other information belonging to independent college consultants who used CollegePlannerPro from 2015 to 2017 were freely available to anyone on web servers used by the software company. An anonymous tip sent to The Chronicle on Thursday pointed out a hyperlink that anyone could use to…
Former Suncoast Hospital patients worried about abandoned medical records
Peter Bernard reports: Patients of the former Suncoast Hospital are worried bad guys may have their private information. A security guard is watching the decaying, old medical center. But it might be too late to keep personal medical records from being stolen. “My wife had three of the kids out there. And she also had cataract surgery at…
Guardian Jacksonville Notifies 11,521 Patients of Email Compromise of Protected Health Information
From their notice of March 30: Guardian Pharmacy of Jacksonville, LLC (“Guardian”) is notifying certain patients of the unauthorized access to certain limited pieces of patient information, including patient name, prescription medication information, treatment details, and diagnosis information. For a small number of individuals, this information also included Social Security numbers and health insurance information. …
NC: Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging notifies 800 patients of phishing incident in 2017
From their notice: Diagnostic Radiology & Imaging, LLC (or “DRI”) operates multiple imaging facilities in Greensboro, North Carolina under the names Greensboro Imaging and The Breast Center of Greensboro. On January 31, 2018, DRI became aware of an impermissible disclosure of limited health information about approximately 800 patients. An investigation revealed that on November 11,…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem notifies 595 patients of missing laptop with their protected health information
From their notice of March 30, 2018: NYC Health + Hospitals this week began to notify 595 NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem patients about the possible disclosure of some of their protected health information (PHI). The possible disclosure—a laptop computer missing from the facility—occurred on January 25, 2018, and was discovered on January 29. The PHI…