The University of California Davis Medical Center has sent out notification letters to patients affected by a breach that occurred in December. In a letter dated January 30, Shara Merritt Reed, Privacy Program Director for the UC Davis Health System, writes that UCDHS recently learned that a medical provider’s email account was compromised by a…
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Notice to Beebe Healthcare Patients Regarding Possible Disclosure of Personal Information (updated)
The following notice was posted yesterday on Beebe’s web site, linked from their home page: Beebe Healthcare (“Beebe”) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ personal information and takes this obligation seriously. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. On December 27, 2013, Beebe learned that…
VT: New questions about patient privacy at North Country Hospital
Melissa Howell reports that North Country Hospital in Newport, VT has been embroiled in another privacy breach involving employees. The hospital was in the news in October after a former employee refused to return laptops containing patient information. The employee was subsequently charged with petty larceny and possession of stolen property, but I haven’t seen any…
Unity Health Insurance notifying over 41,000 patients after hard drive lost by University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy
Fox47 reports: Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members. The health insurance group said the portable computer hard drive was reported missing by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy on Dec. 12. Unity identified 41,437 members who may have been affected…
South Sound doctor's laptop stolen, containing information of about 900 patients
Alexis Krell reports: A South Sound doctor who visits patients at local nursing homes said Monday his laptop computer with personal information of about 900 patients he’s seen for the past three years was stolen from his vehicle. Dr. Ronald Schubert, whose practice is based in Federal Way, said he saw the patients between January…
Patient information may be exposed in UC Davis health system breach
UC Davis Health System officials are notifying 1,800 patients that their personal or medical information may be compromised after three doctors were hit with an email phishing scam. The physicians’ email accounts were exposed to malicious software in the mid-December security breach, health system spokesperson Charles Casey said. He said the doctors assumed the email came…