For the second time in six months, Louisiana State University (LSU) has disclosed a breach involving patient information. Willard Woods of KSLA reports: A database error in a computer entry field led to the disclosure of personal health information of 8,330 LSU Health patients. The hospital says it notified each patient on Wednesday of the…
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Hospital says credit card information for 2K patients possibly compromised
The compromise at web hosting firm E-dreamz, reported here earlier today, didn’t affect only Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates. According to Torie Wells, approximately 2,000 patients of Piedmont Healthcare were also affected: We were told that E-dreamz databases had been compromised and that credit card data of a number of our patients had been exposed,” said Gregory Guin,…
Mass email by Dent Neurologic inadvertently breaches privacy of 10,200 patients
Melinda Miller and Stephen Watson report: Confidential information about more than 10,200 patients of Dent Neurologic Institute was inadvertently sent to more than 200 patients Monday in an email attachment. The personal information – including patients’ names and home addresses, their doctors’ names, last appointment dates and their email addresses – was contained on an…
FTC Panel Highlights Growing Problem of Medical Identity Theft, Especially Among Senior Citizens
Identity theft is the nation’s fastest-growing crime, claiming almost ten million victims per year, according to FBI statistics. Medical identity theft is the latest threat to affect patients—especially senior citizens. To address this growing epidemic, the Federal Trade Commission will host the educational forum “Senior Identity Theft: A Problem in This Day and Age” to discuss the challenges facing victims of…
Iris Scans Seen Shrinking $7 Billion Medical Data Breach: Health
Kristen Hallam reports: Iris scanners aren’t just for airport border-control agents and spy movies anymore. Clinics and hospitals around the world are acquiring technology that identifies people based on physical traits to improve patient safety and stamp out fraud. HCA Holdings Inc. (HCA) hospitals in London, as well as health-care providers across the U.S., are…
Updates to HHS's breach tool includes yet another Florida hospital whose patient data were stolen
An update to HHS’s breach tool this week adds 16 more incidents to their counter, although two of the entries appear to be for the same incident. Significantly, the list includes yet another Florida hospital report of theft of patient data, presumably for tax refund fraud or other fraud. In this case, though, it was not…