Julie Schwartz and Patrice Navarro of HoganLovells write: CNIL has always been very attentive to the processing of health data and to their security and confidentiality. It regularly publishes content on its website (practical information sheets, guidelines and binding recommendations), and has also made health data security one of its priority topics for its investigations…
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Kroger notifies more than 82,000 Postal Prescription Service patients of mistaken information sharing
On March 10, Kroger’s Healthy Options program, Postal Prescription Services (PPS), issued a statement about a privacy breach. According to their statement, some PPS patients’ names and email addresses were erroneously shared with the grocery side of Kroger’s business due to an internal error. Kroger doesn’t state when the breach first occurred, but they discovered…
Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Niki Burnside reports: Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients’ records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a “serious breach of privacy”. In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within…
OU Health notifying patients after theft of employee’s laptop
Laptop theft involving unencrypted patient data is still a thing, although we don’t seem to hear about it as often as a number of years ago. KOKH reports OU Medicine, which does business as OU Health, is notifying an undisclosed number of patients after discovering an employee’s laptop with their emails was stolen on December…
Top of the World Ranch Treatment Center notifies patients after email account compromise
Top of the World Ranch Treatment Center in Illinois has disclosed that a November 17 compromise of a business email account resulted in protected health information being accessible to an attacker. The attack was detected quickly and shut down within hours, and the treatment center’s investigation could not determine if any data was exfiltrated during…
Patient’s ’embarrassing’ private health information posted to Facebook after breach
Tori Gaines reports: A woman has reported that the results of her test for sexually transmitted diseases were posted to Facebook after a worker at a California hospital gained access to her medical records, according to a complaint shared by her attorney. There’s a lot to consider about this case. From the reporting, it appears…