Charles Gazaway reports that two laptops containing unencrypted personal information were stolen from Jewish Hospital. This appears to be the third breach in recent months involving Jewish Hospital. Previous breaches were reported here. A statement posted on the hospital’s web site says: A potential data breach was discovered at the Jewish Hospital Catheterization Lab following…
UNCG Discovers Health Information Security Breaches; 2,500 Being Notified
From the University of North Carolina – Greensboro (UNGG) statement: Computer security breaches at two UNCG clinics allowed unauthorized access to information about more than 2,500 individuals. The university has mailed letters to the last known addresses of those whose personal information was exposed and posted notices on the clinics’ websites. The two computers infected…
DC Chartered Health Plan reports breach
DC Chartered Health Plan, Inc. notified HHS of a laptop theft affecting 540 people. The theft occurred May 26 and was reported last week. No notice appears on their web site, so I do not know whether the laptop was stolen from their premises or from off-premises. Nor do we yet know what kinds of…
When Facebook goes to the hospital, patients may suffer
Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports: William Wells arrived at the emergency room at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach on April 9 mortally wounded. The 60-year-old had been stabbed more than a dozen times by a fellow nursing home resident, his throat slashed so savagely he was almost decapitated. Instead of focusing on treating him, an…
Laptop Revival repairman jailed
I had posted an earlier story on this case over on PogoWasRight.org, but probably should have posted something here, too. From John Leyden: A corrupt laptop repair engineer has gone to jail for nine months after he was convicted of hacking into the laptop of one of his customers. Grzegorz Zachodni, 30, was caught browsing…
Vermont reports uncover three more breaches
From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically. Residents do not seem to have been offered…