CTV reports: A Toronto woman says she peeled back the labels on her medication bottles and found other people’s prescriptions behind them. Sarah Attwell says she noticed the labels were very thick after picking up her five prescriptions from a local Shoppers Drug Mart. “When I investigated and pulled the labels off, I noticed they’re…
Walgreens privacy breach puts info in hands of scary drug addict, suit claims
Aimee Green reports: A man is suing the nation’s largest drug-store chain for $10,000 — claiming that staff at a Gresham Walgreens pharmacy inadvertently shared a copy of his oxycodone prescription with a drug addict, who then tracked him down and demanded that he hand over his pills. The lawsuit details a frightening face-to-face encounter outside…
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PHIprivacy.net had a select and very dedicated readership, but it was time to consolidate my work and put all breach reports back together on one site. As of today, there is a new “Health Data” category on DataBreaches.net. That category will continue to be used for breaches involving the healthcare sector, but now it will…
Changes Coming to Credit Agencies Won’t Stop Hackers
Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg reports: The three big U.S. credit-reporting agencies have agreed to be more helpful. Errors in your credit history will now be easier to correct and delinquent medical bills will take longer to hurt your credit score. An agreement announced Monday between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion will limit the…
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In 2008, I spun off PHIprivacy.net from PogoWasRight.org to start reporting on all the breaches and medical privacy issues of concern to me. The following year, I spun off DataBreaches.net from PogoWasRight.org to cover all non-healthcare sector breaches. It’s time to re-merge. Three blogs are just too much to keep running. But don’t worry: you’ll…
Indiana State Medical Association discloses theft of backup drives with 39,090 members’ health insurance information
A statement from ISMA: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) experienced the theft of two archive backup hard drives on Feb. 13, 2015. The equipment stored the ISMA group health and life insurance databases, which contained information on 39,090 insureds. This was a random criminal act that occurred while an ISMA employee was transporting the…