A message from Chuck Hays, CEO, MaineGeneral Health December 8, 2015 Dear Valued Community Member: MaineGeneral Health and its subsidiaries (MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care, MaineGeneral Retirement Community and MaineGeneral Community Care) have learned it has had a cyber attack on its computer network. On November 13, 2015, MaineGeneral was notified…
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U. Colorado Health Notifies 827 Patients That Employee Snooped in Their Records
From their public notice: UCHealth in northern Colorado is notifying approximately 800 patients that an employee inappropriately accessed their electronic medical record information. Letters to these patients have already been mailed, and affected patients will receive the letters over the coming days. The privacy and confidentiality of patients’ medical record information is a priority, and…
WakeMed exposed patients’ PHI in bankruptcy claims uploaded to PACER: attorney
WRAL in North Carolina reports: A Cary law firm has filed a motion against WakeMed, accusing the hospital of releasing patients’ private information, including Social Security numbers, making them susceptible to identity theft. Cort Walker, a bankruptcy and civil business litigation attorney at Sasser Law Firm, said he noticed a problem while reviewing records WakeMed had…
OH: Patient records from defunct hospital found in dumpster
Natalie Tendall reports that hundreds of people’s identities and personal medical information was found in a dumpster by someone who contacted the police and news station. The documents contain social security numbers, birth dates and very private health information from hundreds of people in the area…… Hundreds of people’s private, health documents including STD test orders,…
FL: LabCorp employee accused of stealing patient information for credit card fraud
AFTV reports: A Lake County woman used her job drawing blood for lab tests to steal patients’ identities, open up credit cards and go on shopping sprees, investigators said. Channel 9 found out Kadesa Sayles lost her job at LabCorp. “She had access to confidential information, which included Social Security numbers, as well as credit card numbers,”…
Santa Barbara Public Health Notifying Patients After Employee Accessed Records Without Authorization
Gina Pothoff reports: Some 260 patients with records in the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department will receive notification letters explaining that a Health Care Center employee illegally accessed their personal health information. The department announced the unauthorized data breach Wednesday, saying a staff member accessed electronic information for an unapproved academic research project. Read more on…