Following up on the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital incident: Dan Raywood quotes a hospital spokesperson who indicates that the doctor had emailed the data to himself. It seems that while the hospital had controls in place to prevent downloading data, its controls to prevent emailing data were not adequate to prevent this…
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Ingenix discovers it may have been exposing health service providers’ SSNs for up to 5 years
This is one of those breaches where I really don’t blame the company, which in this case is Minnesota-based Ingenix. Ingenix provides web-based lookups so that patients can find providers in their area covered by their health plan. The provider data Ingenix uses is provided by the health plans or preferred provider plans themselves. Ingenix…
(follow-up) Privacy czar orders Ottawa Hospital to tighten rules on personal information
Hugh Adami reports: The Ottawa Hospital has again been ordered by Ontario’s privacy commissioner to examine its rules and practices relating to personal health information, following another electronic breach of a patient’s medical records. Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian says in a report that the hospital failed to comply with certain elements of a…
FL: Healthcare Insurance Applications Found in Trash
Last month, I posted a breach story by Robert Siciliano about a then-unnamed insurance agency that had reportedly discarded Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance applications in a dumpster. The files were found by investigator William “Cobra” Staubs, who was engaged in “research.” Simon Barrett followed up on the incident and posted some pictures that suggest that…
HHS web site reveals three new breaches
Today’s update to the HHS breach tool web site records some breaches we already knew about but also some other breaches we did not know about through the usual media sources: California Therapy Solutions in California reported that 1,226 patients had protected health information on a stolen device. The theft occurred on November 15. As…
UK: Doc Files Dumped in a Bin
Paul Thornton reports: Hospital bosses have launched an investigation after documents revealing patients’ personal records were found dumped in a wheelie bin. The details – on two sheets of paper – were discovered with a dictaphone tape, also thought to contain confidential medical data. Data included the patients’ addresses and phone numbers, as well as…