National Seating and Mobility notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 12 of an incident that occurred on April 14, 2015 when two laptops, a smartphone, a backpack, and a briefcase were stolen from two employees’ locked work vans in Atlanta, Georgia. The incidents were immediately reported to the police and NSM was…
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Medical Informatics Engineering hacked; patient info involved
AP reports: A Fort Wayne medical software company is notifying patients of health care providers it serves that their private information might have been exposed when its networks were hacked, it said Wednesday. Medical Informatics Engineering said the attack on its main network and its NoMoreClipboard network began May 7 and wasn’t detected until May…
NY: 18,000 North Shore University Hospital- LIJ patients notified 8 months after data theft at business associate’s offices
Candic Ruud reports: The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is warning about 18,000 patients that their personal, health and insurance information is at risk due to a potential data breach. Five laptops were stolen last September from the offices of Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ and other providers…
IN: Defunct “My Fast Lab” leaves patient information exposed
Giles Bruce reports yet another instance where a firm or covered entity closes and confidential data is just dumped, unshredded. I wish HHS and/or FTC would go after more of these situations and impose some serious consequences to send a clear message that this will not be tolerated. Medical tests. Copies of Social Security cards,…
Ca: Ontario Securities Commission lays criminal charges in patient records privacy breach at two Toronto hospitals
Diana Mehta reports: Criminal charges have been laid after thousands of confidential records were allegedly stolen from two Toronto hospitals and used to market registered education savings plans to new mothers. The alleged incidents involved the Rouge Valley Health System and the Scarborough Hospital and were investigated by Ontario’s financial regulator, which oversees the sale…
Buffalo Heart Group discovers insider wrongdoing involving patient information
Jill Perkins of WKBW in Buffalo, New York posted a statement from attorneys for the Buffalo Heart Group: The Buffalo Heart Group, LLP, a local medical practice, uncovered a serious breach of its computer system that took place in the Spring, 2014 and affected between 500 and 600 of its patients. The recently completed internal…