Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano reported a breach to HHS that affected 1,981 patients. The incident, which occurred on January 23, was coded on the breach tool as a “Hacking/IT Incident” with the location of the information identified as e-mail. A notice on Baylor’s site explains that this was a phishing incident: Notice to…
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PA: Former Crozer-Chester Medical Center pleads guilty to stealing patient info for tax refund fraud scheme
There’s an update to a breach previously noted on this blog in March, 2013. John George recently reported: A 50-year-old Brookhaven, Pa., man pleaded guilty today to stealing hospital patients’ identities as part of a tax fraud scheme. Reynaldo Estrada pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to commit identity theft, aggravated identity theft,…
Update: Edgewater Medical Center's Old Patient Records Hauled Out, Will Be Shredded
Benjamin Woodard follows up on a situation I noted on this blog in 2013 involving medical records that were abandoned over a decade ago at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago: Demolition crews this week began removing loads of old patient medical records from the vacant Edgewater Medical Center, a month after city inspectors criticized the lack of…
NY: Albany Medical Center nurse charged with stealing patient identities
Tim O’Brien reports: A nurse at Albany Medical Center is accused of stealing the identities of patients for at least a year and possibly as many as four, Sheriff Craig Apple said Wednesday evening. She and her live-in boyfriend then used the information to set up credit card accounts and to print fake bank checks, he said. The nurse was…
Boulder Community Health investigating patient records allegedly acquired from unlocked bins or dumpsters
Alex Burness reports on a situation that should concern patients: At least nine Boulder Community Health patients have had copies of their personal medical records stolen either from inside or nearby the hospital’s Foothills campus, then mailed to them by an anonymous source. It’s the third such breach the hospital has investigated since 2008. In…
ID: Larsen Dental Care notifies patients of stolen hard drive
From their website: Notice of Stolen External Hard Drive Larsen Dental Care is notifying the public of a recent incident which could result in possible exposure of certain types of information. On March 4, 2014, an external hard drive was stolen from an employee’s vehicle. We immediately reported the theft to the police, filed a police report, and…