Dave Lieber reports that a nurse’s aide who was a convicted ID thief stole another nurse’s aide’s identification card and then used her identity in ” one of the biggest identity theft capers in Tarrant County, one that targeted more than half a dozen area nursing homes and home healthcare businesses and at least a dozen…
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Massachusetts: state of the breach reports, 2011
Massachusetts has provided another update/report on data breach notifications they receive. You can access the full report (pdf) on their web site. Here are a few snippets from the report: Since the Data Security law, c. 93H, went into effect, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation has tracked the data breach notifications it…
Don't tell me about "lessons learned" when breaches are frequent and measured in the hundreds of thousands at a time
In the last month or so, we’ve seen breaches of healthcare records where each breach is measured in the hundreds of thousands. There was the Utah Dept of Health breach, the South Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services breach, and the Emory Healthcare System breach. But it’s not just here that huge breaches involving…
California's breach page increases our awareness of breaches
Now that California is also posting breach reports online, I’m finding out about breaches in the healthcare sector that I’ve not seen in the news or on HHS’s breach tool. As one example, Perry Dental sent notification letters about a burglary that occurred February 16: We are contacting you about a recent burglary in our…
UK: Two organizations sign undertakings after privacy breaches
Two NHS trusts have signed undertakings to improve data protection following breaches. Hertfordshire County Council signed an undertaking following the loss of an Attendance and Pupil Support consultation folder in January 2011. The lost bag contained hard copy records of primary school consultation visits and the documents in the folder included pupil name and information relating…
Seton medical cards with personal data go astray
Mary Ann Roser reports: A company working with the Seton Healthcare Family mistakenly mailed to the wrong addresses about 555 Seton Health Plan member cards that included names and birth dates, Seton said today. The March 9 mailing by HealthLOGIX of Troy, Mich., came to Seton’s attention a week later when members of the Medicaid health plan called about…