From a statement posted today: Carolinas HealthCare System is notifying approximately 5,600 patients of Carolinas Medical Center-Randolph (CMC-Randolph) whose private information may have been breached by an unauthorized electronic intruder and approximately 700 additional patients of the affected provider as a precautionary measure even though no evidence has been found that their information was obtained…
State Farm and Nationwide fail to convince WV Supreme Court to let them retain – and share – medical records obtained under protective orders
Here’s another recent and interesting privacy case in West Virginia discussed by Bordas & Bordas, who have just been added to my bookmarks: In September, they wrote: Insurance companies routinely gather medical records in the course of taking applications and processing claims. What do you think they do with this private healthcare information? The answer…
West Virginia Supreme Court affirms HIPAA does not pre-empt state law tort claims for privacy violations
I seem to have missed a lawsuit that may be of interest to readers. Back in September, Bordas & Bordas, PLLC wrote: … What if our private information is released without our permission? What if it falls into the hands of someone who can actually cause us harm? These aren’t abstract or hypothetical questions. The danger…
Stratfor hack update: Barrett Brown indicted
Barrett Brown, the self-proclaimed spokesperson for Anonymous, was indicted in Tuesday in Dallas. The newest charges against Brown relate to the use of stolen credit card and personal information from the Stratfor hack in December 2011, and this case is totally separate from other charges he faces for threatening an FBI agent. The first charge…
Unencrypted laptop stolen from Pepperdine University employee’s car contained personal info on 8,300
Whitney Irick reports: President Andrew K. Benton sent an email today informing the university community that a laptop computer belonging to an authorized university employee was stolen from that individual’s car. This laptop had been used extensively in work related to the IRS, “and it contained data dating back to 2008 involving as many as…
Yes, sometimes it’s as bad as we fear
In the process of researching something else, I stumbled across an audit of a NYS agency with the grim title, “Mobile Devices with Sensitive Information are not Secure.” By the time I got done reading and browsing other audits, I totally forgot what I was looking for in the first place, but here’s what I…