Electa Draper reports: Kaiser Permanente Health Plan of Colorado reported Friday it mailed letters meant for one group of patients to the wrong patients on July 24. A mailing from Kaiser’s Population Care and Prevention Services Department was processed incorrectly, with some letters going to the wrong parties, officials said. The letter described a chronic…
Data breach possibly affects more than 500 in N.C.
An Alpharetta, Ga.-based medical company suffered a data breach that may have affected 570 North Carolinians. A subcontractor for 24 ON Physicians PC “inadvertently failed to secure a computer server containing patient account information,” the company said today in a news release. The failure occurred between December and April. The information included invoice numbers, charge…
Friday reminder on the importance of background checks (updated)
San Mateo Medical Center is offering current and former employees three years of identity theft protection services because someone they hired for their payroll unit failed to disclosed a prior conviction for identity theft and they didn’t discover the conviction until after the employee had access to payroll data. Although an investigation disclosed no evidence…
Chicago Yacht Club hacked
Shia Kapos reports: The Chicago Yacht Club has reported a data breach involving credit and debit cards of its high-profile members. “Regrettably, the Club suffered a computer security incident that may involve your personal information,” wrote Commodore Gerald Bober in a July 31 letter to members. Read more on Chicago Business.
AU: Privacy update: in for a penny, in for a pound — a warning for health service providers
DLA Piper writes: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found that a suburban Melbourne medical practice has breached the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) by failing to take reasonable steps to secure personal information in its possession. […] The Pound Road Medical Centre (PRMC) moved premises in 2011 and believed that all paper-based medical records had been…
French credit card users most at risk of fraud
From The Local: Bank card users in France stood the highest chance of being a victim of fraud compared to the rest of Europe, new data released this week has revealed. Experts say France’s adoption chip and pin technology has forced criminals to find other ways stealing money. Some interesting stats in this article in…