Edward J. McAndrew of Ballard Spahr reports: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reinstated a data breach class action filed against Barnes & Noble (B&N). The litigation, styled as Dieffenbach v. Barnes & Noble, Inc., now heads back to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, which previously dismissed the…
Blue Shield of California notifies members of privacy breach
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,…
Texas Health Resources notifying patients about incident in 2017 that affected multiple entities
Texas Health Resources is notifying fewer than 4,000 patients about an email incident last year. They were reportedly asked to delay notification for law enforcement purposes, and were told that this was part of a larger incident affecting multiple entities across the country. Now what larger incident would that be? Texas Health Resources is committed…
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. …