Collaborate Disseminate
Spring Hill Insider reports: Thousands of patients may have suffered delays to treatment after it was revealed that the NHS failed to deliver more than half a million sensitive documents to GPs. Test results from biopsies and patient treatment plans we… Continue reading UK: 700,000 Hospital Letters Go Missing Since 2011
This week, DataBreaches.net was reminded yet again of the risks of trying to alert an entity to a breach. This time, it was not me who was threatened or any of the whitehat researchers I know. This week, it was a citizen who found patient records on th… Continue reading How can we screw up incident response? Let me count the ways — Monday UK Edition
CBC reports that the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Care Plan (MCP) has disclosed a breach that involves a missing binder with the personal health information of roughly 3,300 people. While that’s bad enough, the binder has reportedly been mi… Continue reading The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Care Plan only recently disclosed a breach that occurred in January 2018.
Jason Braverman reports: Kroger announced today that a box of pharmacy records was lost. They said in late July, a records management service, Retrievex, Inc., the company’s business associate, shipped a box of pharmacy records to the Woodstock Kroger … Continue reading Kroger reports ‘isolated incident’ involving pharmacy records
Note: coverage of the breaches referenced below can be found on this stie by searching it for “Jackson Health System.” The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Health Office of Civil RIghts: The Office for Civil Rights … Continue reading OCR Imposes a $2.15 Million Civil Money Penalty against Jackson Health System
Joseph Timan reports: Personal data identifying hundreds of children’s names, addresses and schools have been “misplaced”. The missing document is believed to reveal the personal details of all Year 7 pupils in two secondary schools. Bolton NHS Foundat… Continue reading UK: Bolton school pupils’ personal details lost after data breach
BBC reports: Personal data identifying hundreds of children’s names, addresses and schools has been “misplaced”, prompting an inquiry at a hospital trust. A missing document contains the details of all Year 7 pupils in two Greater Man… Continue reading Hundreds of Greater Manchester children’s details lost in data breach
Bay 93.9 reports: There are calls for an independent investigation after sensitive medical records were found on a Geelong street. The documents included data about dementia and mental health patients and contained information including names, conditio… Continue reading AU: Call for formal probe into Barwon Health privacy breach
James DeHaven reports: Northern Nevada’s largest health care provider is still looking for a thumb drive containing patient information that first went missing in June. Renown Health on Friday announced it was mailing letters to patients whose informat… Continue reading NV: Renown Health warns lost thumb drive could put some patient information at risk
Darrah McDonagh reports: Garda documents fell off the back of a motorcycle when it hit a speed bump and were never recovered, according to records. The incident was one of more than 40 data-protection breaches involving sensitive information held by th… Continue reading Lost garda documents fell from back of bike