Gordon Friedman reports: Patients at the Oregon State Hospital‘s maximum security ward report being upset that their private medical information was improperly shared by a hospital psychiatrist. On June 9, a psychiatrist used a cell phone to photograph a patient census sheet and accidentally sent it to six people, said Joni DeTrant, medical records director at OSH. The census…
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UK: Patients warned of ‘shocking’ data breach after nurse’s bag stolen from car in Cambridge
Cambridge News reports: Patients have been warned of a potential breach of their data after a nurse’s car was broken into and her handbag stolen. An out of hours car, used by a community nurse with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), was broken into on July 9 while parked outside a patient’s home in east Chesterton…
Former Tampa-Area Hospital Employee Sentenced For Stealing Patient Information And Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns
Tampa, Florida – Aug. 3 – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Shanakia Benton to three years in federal prison for wrongful disclosure of individual identifiable health information and wire fraud. As part of her sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $77,239, the proceeds of the wire…
Psychiatrist’s laptop stolen; patients notified (UPDATED)
Brian Halevie-Goldman, a psychiatrist involved in the BALCO dope-prescribing scandal in major league sports, recently notified HHS of a stolen laptop containing information on 2000 patients. I can find no substitute notice or other information at this time, and this post will be updated if I do find something. Casewatch summarized some of Halevie-Goldman’s prior…
Extortion demand on Athens Orthopedic Clinic escalates as patient data is dumped
On June 26, DataBreaches.net reported that several databases with patient information had allegedly been hacked and put up for sale on the dark net by hackers calling themselves TheDarkOverlord (TDO). This site subsequently identified one of the entities as the Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia, and contacted them to alert them that it appeared that…
PA: Patient info taken from Mountaintop Area Medical Center
Charlotte Ames reports: Patients of a medical center in the region may have had their personal information compromised. In a statement, Mountaintop Area Medical Center in Snowshoe, Centre County said it became aware on May 24 that a former employee likely removed one of its patient listings. […] Statement from their web site: Dear Patients…