A statement from the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System: Monday, December 15, 2014 – Information on Privacy Incident The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCUHS) said today that it has notified certain patients about a recent incident involving the security of some patient information. VCUHS has mailed letters to notify patients who may have…
Yet Another Sony Breach Went Unreported In January As 47,740 Individuals’ Data Exposed
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports yet another Sony breach that was disclosed in the hackers’ email dump. Prior to the Brazil breach in February 2014 (also revealed in corporate emails and also not disclosed publicly by Sony at the time), there was apparently an incident involving their German web site in January: … An email from Courtney…
HHS update provides some new details on breaches (updated)
HHS has updated its public breach tool, and its update provides some new details on previously reported breaches: A CD that was missing and then recovered contained PHI of 36,400 Jersey City Medical Center – Barnabas Health patients. A laptop stolen from a Coordinated Health employee’s car in February held records on 13,907 patients – not 773 as reported…
Memorial Healthcare System apologizes for e-mail gaffe exposing patient info
Memorial Healthcare System in Florida has had another breach, it seems. From the substitute notice they posted on their web site in October: NOTICE REGARDING AN EMAIL SENT TO PATIENTS REGARDING “BREAKING THE SILENCE” EVENT Memorial Healthcare System (Memorial) is committed to maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of patient information at all times. We are…
Physician notifies patients of theft of equipment containing personal and medical information
Family medicine practitioner Dr. Loi Luu of Westminster, California recently notified patients and HHS of a potential breach, although the data were reportedly encrypted. PHIprivacy.net was able to access a still-cached copy of a substitute notice published in her local media: PUBLIC NOTICE: PLEASE ALLOW THIS HIPAA BREACH PUBLIC NOTICE: Please allow this HIPAA Breach Notification…
NY: MetroPlus Health Plan notifies members of breach after employee emails info to personal email account
As posted on MetroPlus Health Plan’s web site: Recently, MetroPlus Health Plan experienced a possible security breach involving some personal information (including name, member identification number, date of birth and social security number) of a number of our members. A MetroPlus employee, while attempting to work off site, sent an e-mail with this information to…