They say that they’re not yet sure how a breach involving patient data happened, but Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts was notified by the police that three electronic patient files had been found in possession of an unauthorized party. CHA learned of the breach on January 31, and opened their own investigation, which revealed that…
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“First do no harm” should be “First, secure your patient data, Doctor!”
When they discovered more than 42,000 patient records and millions of patient clinical notes exposed on a misconfigured rsync backup, researchers at UpGuard responsibly set out to notify the entity to secure their data. It turned out to be a Herculean task that would take almost two months and multiple entities to get the job…
Southeast Clinical Pathology Laboratories Notifies Patients of Stolen Laptop
From the notice on their web site: March 21, 2018 – Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc. (“CPLSE”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal and protected health information of its patients and their payment guarantors. On September 20, 2017, a laptop issued to a CPLSE employee was stolen….
Hospitals Are Throwing Sensitive Patient Information Out With the Recycling
Kristen V. Brown reports: …. Researchers conducted a “recycling audit” of five hospitals in Toronto between November 2014 and May 2016 and found that frequently hospitals improperly threw out sensitive patient information. All the hospitals had policies designed to get rid of confidential patient health information without potentially exposing it, along with shredders to get the…
CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…
Georgia MENTOR notifies patients after disk with protected health information discovered lost in the mail
From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, we are providing potentially impacted individuals with information about the event, steps taken…