Jennifer van der Kleut reports: The Fairfax County Health Department has mailed letters to 1,499 clients of the Bailey’s Health Center, located in Falls Church, to inform them of an unauthorized disclosure of some protected health information. View the letter to Bailey’s Health Center clients. This is one of those situations where it really pays to have Business…
Pointer: Lanap and Implant Center breach
For those of you who haven’t caught on that I have a slew of other breach reports over on PHIprivacy.net, I thought I’d give you a pointer to a really horrific breach I’ve been covering over there this week. It involves 11,000 patients’ data (yes, including SSN and DOB) winding up on a torrent site…
Lanap and Implant Center patients never told that their Social Security numbers were – and are – still online for download?!
Sometimes it pays to keep Googling or re-checking with different search strings. Today, I managed to locate the text of what appears to be the The Lanap and Implant Center’s substitute (media) notice on the breach I’ve previously discussed here and here. First, the text of the notice: Public Notice or Legal Notice #: 4095248…
TN: TBI investigates possible theft of 6,000 state, Metro employees’ personal info (UPDATE 1)
Brian Wilson reports: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation raided the home of a former state employee on Friday night they say stole the personal information of approximately 6,000 state and Metro government employees. In a statement, TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said state officials searched the Hermitage home of 24-year-old Steven Hunter to seize computers that…
N.M. Case Tests How Far CEs Must Go to Meet the Demands of Law Enforcement
AIS Health has an article on a troubling case previously discussed on this blog involving two Gila Medical Center physicians who cooperated with police requests for increasingly invasive body searches of a man suspected of hiding drugs in his body. The article begins: Hospital privacy officers on the job long enough have their share of…
Ranking Members Waxman and DeGette Release Memo on Healthcare.gov Security
Over on beSpacific, Sabrinia Pacifici writes: “Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette released a memo to Democratic Committee members regarding the security of Healthcare.gov. In a classified briefing two days ago, HHS officials revealed that there have been no successful security attacks…