Patients at Royal Bolton Hospital aren’t the only U.K. patients to recently have their confidential information wind up in a street. Matt Mears of CapitalFM reports that information on 16 pediatric patients at Royal Oldham Hospital was found more than 40 miles away in Liverpool. C’mon, folks, get it together. This type of lax security…
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More than 14,000 Florida patients notified of breach involving tax refund fraud scheme
Yet another Florida medical facility is notifying patients that their information was compromised by an insider who provided their details to others for a tax refund fraud scheme. According to multiple media sources, the University of Florida is notifying 14,339 patients of the UF&Shands Family Medicine at Main practice that they may have become victims of ID…
OrthoCare Medical Equipment notifies 93 patients of breach
Have I ever mentioned that I’m old, and I forget things? Thanks to Healthcare IT News for reminding me that I should have mentioned a recent breach involving OrthoCare Medical Equipment, LLC. I had posted it to DataLossDB.org, but forgot to post it here. On February 14, OrthoCare learned that a binder with 93 patients’ information…
Documents containing personal information of patients left on Brooklyn sidewalk after medical supply company is shuttered
Todd Maisel, Kerry Burke, and Joe Kemp report: Stacks of paperwork containing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of patients were carelessly dumped on the sidewalk when a Brooklyn medical supply store was shuttered. The landlord said he was unaware of the papers’ sensitivity when he tossed the files outside Landmark Medical Supplies…
Family Health Enterprise notifies patients after laptops stolen in office burglary
I don’t recall ever seeing an actual statistic as to how often laptops are stolen from locked offices after hours, but I wonder if we’ve done enough to get the word out to covered entities that it might be better to rely on encryption than to rely on the physical security of the office premises….
Patient records found outside an evicted dental clinic in Detroit
Here we go again: After Kelly Plaza Dental Clinic in Detroit received an eviction notice shutting them down, someone cleaned out the premises. Thrown in a dumpster were boxes with patients’ unshredded records that included Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account information, and of course, dental records. Read more on ClickOnDetroit.