Blythe Berhard reports a laptop computer and flash drive containing information on 2,600 St. Anthony’s nursing home patients was stolen from a doctor’s car on July 29. The computer included patient names and birth dates and may have contained medical records. It did not hold social security numbers or any financial information, according to the…
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MO: Patients of Olson & White Orthodontics notified of breach
Georgina Gustin reports: A Florissant orthodontist’s office has informed 10,000 people that their personal information could be compromised because of a break-in and burglary at its offices in July. Olson & White Orthodontics, which also has offices in O’Fallon, Mo., was burglarized on July 22. Thieves took computers containing personal data, including patient health information,…
NZ: Patient details of students on stolen laptops
Patients’ privacy may have been breached after the Southern Primary Health Organisation clinic in Invercargill was broken into. Police are still investigating but Fairfax Media believes two laptops and two hard drives containing patient records were stolen. One hard drive is believed to contain the patient files of students who underwent the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)…
UTHealth informs patients of incident related to patient information
The following notice was submitted by a reader: UT Physicians, the medical group practice of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, announces that an unencrypted laptop computer containing some patient information was discovered missing on Aug. 2 from a locked closet in a UT Physicians orthopedic clinic. UT Physicians…
Advocate Medical Group notifying 4 million patients after burglars snatch unencrypted computers
Advocate Medical Group and its parent, Advent Healthcare, may have just bought themselves a heap of problems. Storing more than 20 year-old personally identifiable data including Social Security numbers on unencrypted computers with less than strong physical security doesn’t bode well for any investigation by HHS or Illinois’s Attorney General. (corrected name on medical group)
Personal data for 4 million patients at risk after burglars snatch computers with Advocate Medical Group's patient information
Peter Frost and Julie Wernau of the Chicago Tribune report than 4 million patients of Advocate Medical Group may be at risk of ID theft after four computers were stolen during a burglary last month at Advocate’s administrative building on West Touhy Avenue in Park Ridge. Advocate Medical Group is part of Advocate Health Care….