Brooklyn Hospital Center, a member hospital of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, posted this notice on their website, linked from their home page: Notice of Disclosure of Patient Information On December 2, 2013, a backpack belonging to a medical resident was stolen while the doctor was on The Brooklyn Hospital Center property. The backpack contained a USB…
PA: Supportive Concepts for Families notifies clients after personal information was exposed on Google for 10 months
Supportive Concepts for Families, Inc. in Reading, PA offers services for clients with mental health/intellectual developmental disabilities. A hardware upgrade in February 2013 left consumer information in an internal database exposed in Google with no login credentials required. They have posted a notice dated February 13, 2014 on their site, although it is not linked…
PA: Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital notifies patients of missing laboratory records and specimens from 2006 and 2007
Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital in Pennsylvania posted this notice to their patients on the home page of their website: Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital (G-BH) is committed to serving the health care needs of the Bloomsburg and surrounding community—including protecting the confidentiality and privacy of our patients’ personal information. We recently became aware of an incident that involves patients’ health…
LifeLock addresses FTC complaint; more from CEO Todd Davis
Hayley Ringle reports: My hour-long interview last week with LifeLock CEO and chairman Todd Davis covered a lot of ground in the Phoenix Business Journal’s inaugural “Inside the Reporter’s Notebook” event. But there were some extra questions I didn’t get a chance to ask, including some about a pending FTC investigation I just learned about. Davis, who co-founded the Tempe-based identity theft protection company…
Vitalité Health Network finally informs patients of long-running privacy breach one year after discovering it?
CBC News reports: The Vitalité Health Network is informing some patients their personal medical records were accessed without authorization. The privacy breach was discovered a year ago. A doctor with the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre gained unauthorized access to the files using two hospital computers between Sept. 6, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2012, the letter signed by…
FL: 18,000 SWFL credit cards for sale on ‘Hackers’ Amazon’
Jim Spiewak reports: Thousands of stolen credit card numbers from Southwest Florida are currently being shopped online to whoever cares to buy them from hackers. It’s the information from the black magnetic strip on the back of your cards. “Instead of thinking, ‘It’s not going to be me,’ the odds are it is going to…