From the aw-c’mon-already-folks dept., Cynthia M. Ellis reports: Officials said they are changing how they dispose of public records after court documents were found in a recycling bin earlier this week behind the Madison County Wood River Facility. A Telegraph reporter received information Monday night about files found in an open bin behind the county…
OHSU says data about some patients and employees stolen in a home burglary
Crossposted from PHIprivacy.net: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital officials have posted a notice on their web site. While most of the notice concerns patient information, it appears that almost 200 employees had their Social Security Numbers on the stolen USB drive. OHSU has set up a toll free number to respond to patient questions. Information stored…
UK: Medical notes are found in Bournemouth street
Stephen Bailey reports that stolen records with children’s sensitive information were found blowing around the road: “It had information about their jobs, when their nappies need changing, names of people looking after them. The records had reportedly been stolen: A lady, who declined to give her surname, phoned to say the documents were taken from…
Videos from Health Privacy Summit available online
The Health Privacy Summit has made materials and videos available online for its recent conference, “Is There an American Health Privacy Crisis?” Check them out at http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/d/3cq92g/6X Video Highlights: Patient Story about Privacy Loss: “Julie” bravely tells how she was harmed when her sensitive mental health information was used by staff members of a Boston health care…
Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features
Rip Empson reports: Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but…
Prison workers settle lawsuit
Anthony Skeens reports a settlement in a lawsuit that I don’t recall seeing before: A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the state for exposing employee personnel information to Pelican Bay State Prison inmates. The settlement last week came after five years of litigation stemming from two incidents in 2006 when the prison…