Abby Sewell reports: Following a break-in at a county health contractor’s office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data. The county already requires that workers’ laptops be encrypted. The supervisors voted Tuesday to extend that policy…
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Another North Shore University Hospital employee charged as part of ID theft ring
CBS New York reports that another former employee at North Shore University Hospital has been charged with identity theft. Latoya Talbert, 24, has been accused of stealing the identities so she could go shopping. Talbert was arraigned in Nassau County for her alleged involvement in an identity theft ring that began in 2011. Read more…
Elliot Health System notifies some individuals after computers stolen
Elliot Health System is notifying some of its patients after four computer work stations with unencrypted names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, limited health information such as billing codes, Social Security number for at least one patient, and Tufts Health Plan insurance number for at least one patient were stolen. EHS became aware of the breach on March…
Lawsuit against Eisenhower Medical Center dismissed on appeal
There’s an update to a lawsuit that followed a breach involving a computer stolen from Eisenhower Medical Center in 2011. As reported at the time, the types of unencrypted patient information on the computer was confined to an electronic index patient names, ages, dates of birth, the last four digits of the Social Security numbers…
Update to Sutherland breach
Add 3,497 more Los Angeles County patients to the over 220,000 affected by the Sutherland breach previously noted on this blog. Update: The L.A. Times notes the total count for this breach is now up to about 342,000.
Additional details on Los Robles Hospital breach
On May 10, I had noted a breach involving Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. HHS’s public breach tool had indicated that an incident involving their business associate, Courier Express, had resulted in the notification of 2,523 patients. A hospital spokesperson kindly called me to respond to the e-mail inquiry I had…