Where there’s a breach, there’s often a lawsuit. Barbara Wallace of Courthouse News reports: A flash drive holding the confidential medical records of almost 49,000 Kaiser patients was stolen, exposing their names and other information, a class claims in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Central District Court. Ginger Buck brought a class action…
WA: Sumner fires temporary court clerk for sending herself city data on 3,600 people
Eager new employee or something nefarious? Hopefully, the former, but in any event, this breach was detected. Kari Plog reports: The city of Sumner has fired a temporary employee after she sent information about 3,600 people, mostly residents, to her personal email. City spokeswoman Carmen Palmer told The News Tribune on Friday that an investigation…
Colorado notifies 1,918 Medicaid clients of HIPAA breach by contractor's employee
Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing issued the following notice: DENVER – December 27, 2013 – The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced today that client information was sent from a work to a personal email address by a temporary employee of its contractor, the Colorado Community Health Alliance (CCHA). The list…
Air Force Network: Serious consequences for mishandling personal ID info
by Airman 1st Class Joshua Eikren 375th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs 12/18/2013 – SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — Individuals who inappropriately store and transmit Personally Identifiable Information, or PII, over the Air Force Network will now have their accounts locked in response to the violation. Patricia Feist, 375th Communications Squadron base records manager, said, “Personally Identifiable Information…
This doesn't bode well… (UPDATED)
UPDATE of Dec. 28: The medical center now states that there was NO patient data on the stolen computer. Good news, indeed! Original post: Four days after a computer was stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the hospital still can’t say whether there was any patient data on it? That’s absurd. Just ask the staff…
Irish credit union gaffe exposed almost 5,000 customers’ loan information online
Ah, this report from December 24th slipped by me. Cormac Murphy reports: In a major blunder, the borrowing amounts, loan durations and arrears of 4,971 members of Tullamore Credit Union were made public. The private database became freely available via the lender’s website last week and remained accessible for at least two days, it is…