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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.
The exact date [...]
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Continue ReadingArg!
Nope, not speak like a pirate day.
That is me censoring and keeping things clean here.
Details:
Government Contractor
Laptop Stolen from office
CD-ROM in laptop had data on 207,000 Reservists
Questions:
Why was data not encrypted?
Why was data on a CD-ROM?
What is going on here?
PHI on a mobile device (laptop/external hard drive/CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/thumbdrive) that is not encrypted is just asking for disaster.
Don’t [...]
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Continue ReadingOften, when I tell my children what I want them to do, I get the blank stare and head nod.
More recently, any time I speak to my children I require the following:
Pause your video game
Look me in the eye.
Don’t act like my children on this subject.
First, another report of stolen laptops:
Five laptops were stolen from [...]
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Continue ReadingWe are seeing this way too often.
Our Lady of Peace, a psychiatric hospital in Louisville, KY is in the middle of a painful and embarrassing process.
A flash drive was lost that:
… contained unencrypted data on patients admitted since 2002 and patients assessed, but never admitted, since 2009. Data on admitted patients included name, [...]
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Continue ReadingJohn Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, CA had 2 laptops stolen that contained person and health information on 5,450 patients.
As is required, the Hospital sent letters to all 5,450 patients telling them of the theft.
John Muir Health vice president and privacy officer, Hala Helm, says the laptops were password-protected and contained data in a format [...]
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