Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech (sic). Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company…
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IL: Patients' medical records stolen at suburban company (UPDATE 3)
Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech. Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company handles…
Za: Patient records still available
A healthcare sector breach out of South Africa. Andrew Stone reports: Health authorities were scrambling yesterday to find out how thousands of confidential patient records ended up being freely available on the Internet. A team of 20 investigators from both the Eastern Cape and Western Cape Health departments have been tasked to find out how…
Breaches recently reported to NYS
Last year, New York State began posting logs of breach reports they receive. Entities experiencing a breach are required to inform the state how many NYS residents were involved, but are not required to indicate the total number of individuals affected. Unfortunately, their logs do not indicate precisely whether the NYS residents affected are employees,…
KY: Data on 24,600 hospital patients missing
Laura Ungar reports: A flash drive containing personal information on 24,600 patients is missing from Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital, prompting it to warn those patients they could be at risk for fraud. Hospital officials are sending letters to all those affected, apologizing for the privacy breach and recommending steps they can take. Officials…
Survey: Delayed Compliance with New Regulations Has Increased Data Breaches and Medical Identity Theft in U.S. Hospitals
Although some will tend to minimize survey results when the surveyor has a self-serving interest, the results of the recent Identity Force survey of over 200 hospital administrators provides unsurprising, yet troubling, data. From their press release about the survey: PROBLEMS ARE WORSENING DESPITE MAJOR REGULATORY EFFORTS 41.5% of hospitals have TEN OR MORE data…