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2,207 individuals, who participated in a newborn screening program, are being notified their personal information may have been stolen.
Details:
Laptop – password protected Windows user name, NOT encrypted.
Stored in a locked, private room (an office?)
Data – Includes: patient and mother’s names, medical record numbers, date of birth, diagnosis, plus social security number for some.
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Continue ReadingAh the joy of our new health care rules.
When the government isn’t reducing reimbursement rates, threatening to take back money already paid to you (via a RAC audit) or hanging huge fine threats over your head if you don’t follow privacy rules (HIPAA)…they sneak in a nifty little (additional) paperwork pothole.
With the passage of the [...]
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Continue ReadingOn Friday (the second best day to report bad news), American Airlines announced that a hard drive had been stolen from it’s Fort Worth headquarters building.
On this hard drive was current and former employee:
Names
Addresses
Dates of birth
Social Security numbers
some bank information
Oh, and “No customer data was affected”…whew! I’m sure the employees are grateful.
Things we don’t know:
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Continue ReadingGeorgia’s largest health insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, has warned 70,000 Georgians that their personal medical information, Social Security numbers and credit card data “may have been wrongly accessed because of a Web site security breach.”
One might argue this isn’t really the fault of BCBS of GA [...]
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Continue ReadingAs noted in Reuters:
WellPoint Inc., has warned some 470,000 people who applied for its health insurance that a website security glitch may have exposed their Social Security numbers and other sensitive data to the public….The glitch was introduced…by a contractor who upgraded the site….
A couple of things to note here:
Large companies can (and will) continue [...]
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