Tony Thomas reports: Thousands of pages of medical documents containing confidential information are back in the control of a local hospital after being dumped across a busy Gwinnett County road. […] Officials confirm the papers came from Eastside Medical Center in Snellville. A hospital spokeswoman tells Thomas the papers were taken by a vendor to…
GA: Hundreds of documents with personal info found along Jonesboro intersection
Ashley Swann reports: Some local residents and business owners are on high alert after hundreds of personal documents were found scattered in the middle of a busy Jonesboro intersection. Channel 2’s Ashley Swann spoke with a man who went to help clean up the mess. “We’ve got everything from loan applications to balance sheets, to…
CA: USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park
Vic Lee writes: Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News. A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a…
Papen And Morales Call For Patient Information Security After Behavioral Health Audit
by Senator Howie C. Morales (D-Silver City) and Senate President Pro Tempore Mary Kay Papen (D-Las Cruces): …. If state law provides greater privacy protection than federal law, state law controls. New Mexico’s Children’s Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Act places limitations on the disclosure, without consent, of behavioral health information that could be…
Georgia Department of Driver Services public computers expose personal information
Ross McLaughlin reports: 11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action went undercover to expose how a state agency that you trust to protect your personal information is putting people at risk for identity theft. Your private information, available for anyone to see — tax returns, Social Security numbers, you name it. It may not have been intentional,…
Patients Worried About Compromised Records At AnMed
Oh my. Here’s an insider breach from earlier this year that I seem to have missed. WSPA had reported: Some patients of AnMed Health are worried their information is in the wrong hands. Hospital officials would not specify how many people received a letter which states someone accessed medical records without a legitimate reason. AnMed…