Southeast Clinical Pathology Laboratories Notifies Patients of Stolen Laptop
From the notice on their web site: March 21, 2018 – Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc. (“CPLSE”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal and...
View ArticlePersonal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen may have been breached, armed forces...
JKR staff report: In a sensational revelation, an RTI reply has indicated that a private vendor previously employed by the ministry of defence may have walked away with the personal data of 50 lakh...
View ArticleOklahoma man pleads guilty to using stolen medical records for identity theft
KXII reports: One of two men suspected of of using stolen medical records to commit identity theft has pleaded guilty in federal court. 34-year-old Robert Bond of Thackerville pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleWisconsin Department of Health Services and The Management Group Announce...
The Department of Health Services (DHS) and The Management Group (TMG) are notifying IRIS participants of a breach of information due to theft of a laptop and a work bag of a TMG IRIS Consultant on...
View ArticleChesapeake Regional Healthcare notifies 2,100 sleep center patients of...
Elizabeth Simpson reports: Chesapeake Regional Healthcare is notifying 2,100 patients from the hospital’s sleep center program that some of their electronic health information might have been...
View ArticleMore than 100 Iditarod volunteers’ personal information potentially compromised
KTUU is reporting that more than 100 Iditarod race volunteers may have had their personal details on a computer that was stolen on March 11. Chas St. George, the Chief Operations Officer of the ITC,...
View ArticleData breach could impact some patients of medical lab chain with Alabama...
Connor Sheets reports: A data breach may have resulted in the exposure of the personal and protected health information of patients of a medical lab chain with multiple Alabama locations. American...
View ArticleNE: Complete Family Medicine advises patients of burglary
From their public notice: On March 1, 2018, the offices of Complete Family Medicine, LLC were burglarized. Later the same day, Complete Family Medicine discovered that the perpetrators stole numerous...
View ArticleA Notice Regarding a Recent Data Security Incident Affecting Boise State...
For those keeping track: we had this incident filed solely under Fresno State, but had counted it in those incidents involving health/medical info. The incident had been included in our March 2018...
View ArticleEye Care Surgery Center notifies 2,553 patients of laptop theft
The following substitute notice was posted on the center’s site. The incident has also been posted to HHS’s public breach tool, where it is currently listed twice – once under this name and once as...
View ArticleNY: 50 case files from Dept. of Social Services may have been exposed to data...
Danny Spewak reports: Fifty case files with sensitive information about Erie County constituents were potentially exposed to the public during two separate instances in 2017, according to a letter sent...
View ArticleOR: LaPorte & Associates notifies clients of laptop theft
From their press release: LaPorte & Associates, Inc. (“LaPorte”) today announced an incident involving potential unauthorized access to a laptop containing certain personal information. LaPorte is...
View ArticleCBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in,...
CBC News reports on a CBC breach: The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the...
View ArticleMedical records for more than 600 patients stolen from Moran Eye Center
Paighten Harkins reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a hard drive from the John A. Moran Eye Center, compromising the medical records of more than 600 of its patients. The theft occurred April...
View ArticleUK: Patient information stolen from Dorset HealthCare employee’s car
Josh Wright reports: The loss of medical information relating to as many as 50 patients has sparked fears about the security of people’s private records. Personal details belonging to between 11 and 50...
View ArticleClaims San Diego pharmacy waited months to notify all patients about serious...
Jennifer Kastner reports: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in pills were reportedly stolen from a pharmacy in a San Marcos strip mall. Along with the drugs, personal information was taken. Yet it took...
View ArticleSan Francisco acupuncturist notifies patients whose records were stolen in...
Denise M. Bowden, LAc, M.S. is a licensed acupuncturist in San Francisco. A notice on her web site describes a recent data security breach: Denise M. Bowden, a board licensed acupuncturist, has become...
View ArticleCHRISTUS Spohn notifying 1,800 patients: Medical records stolen in April theft
KRIS-TV reports: Medical records for some patients from CHRISTUS Spohn medical centers in Corpus Christi were among the items stolen from an employee, the organization reported. According to a press...
View ArticleMichigan Medicine notifies patients of health information data breach
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Medicine is notifying approximately 870 patients about the theft of a laptop computer that may have exposed some of their health information. On June 3, 2018, a Michigan...
View ArticleLaptop containing Northwest Territories residents’ health info stolen in Ottawa
Alex Brockman reports: A laptop containing health information on people living in the Northwest Territories was stolen from a vehicle in Ottawa, according to a news release from the territory’s health...
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