As a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this blog involving an employee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside Hospital, multiple media sources are reporting that the employee pleaded guilty last week to to taking the names, social security numbers and birth dates of 19 patients there. Read more in the Pittsburgh…
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Commissioner says Saskatchewan 'bedevilled' by privacy breaches
Jennifer Graham reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says the province is “bedevilled” by a large number of intrusions into people’s personal information. Gary Dickson said in his annual report released Monday that his office opened 47 investigations into privacy breaches at government institutions over the last year. “What we often find is that it’s not somebody…
Three newly reported breaches all involved…. paper records
Interesting: the three new breaches on HHS’s breach tool that I hadn’t heard about already all involved paper records. Here are the entries from their tool showing the name(s) of involved entities, the number of patients affected or notified, the date of the breach, and the type of breach: Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, MD, “Cahaba Government…
What they won't tell us, they have to tell HHS: the SRHS breach
It was only a matter of time until we found out how many people Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System had to notify about the laptop stolen from an employee’s car in March. The incident has now been posted on HHS’s breach tool and it appears they reported that 400,000 patients were affected. The employee was authorized…
Cancer Center Blamed for Stolen Laptop; Delayed Notice Blamed for ID Theft
Okay, here’s a breach I never saw reported anywhere in my usual sources, until I read about it in a lawsuit. Via Courthouse News’ Joe Harris: A hospital and cancer center allowed a laptop computer stuffed with unencrypted, confidential information on its patients to be stolen, and did not notify patients of the data theft…
Cancer Center Blamed for Stolen Laptop; Delayed Notice Blamed for ID Theft
Okay, here’s a breach I never saw reported anywhere in my usual sources, until I read about it in a lawsuit. Via Courthouse News’ Joe Harris: A hospital and cancer center allowed a laptop computer stuffed with unencrypted, confidential information on its patients to be stolen, and did not notify patients of the data theft…