Collaborate Disseminate
Ange McCormack reports: More than 1,000 confidential medical records have been left on the floor at a derelict former aged care facility operated by the New South Wales Government. The privacy breach, uncovered in a triple j Hack and ABC News investiga… Continue reading NSW: ‘Disturbing’ privacy breach revealed: Over 1,000 NSW Health medical records abandoned in derelict building
Bryan Anderson reports: Lane County Health and Human Services announced the loss of 49 boxes containing patient and client information Tuesday night. The boxes contained 566 Community Health Centers of Lane County patient medical information files and … Continue reading OR: Lane County Health and Human Services says more than 700 patients and clients had their files lost or possibly destroyed
Kirsty Johnston reports: A doctor lost a file containing highly sensitive information about breast cancer patients, while walking between a hospital and a radiation clinic, it has emerged. Police have been called over the blunder amid fears someone has… Continue reading NZ: Investigation, apology after doctor loses confidential breast cancer patient files
Lauren Lindstrom reports: A lost flash drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number of people associated with the University of Toledo prompted the university to send out letters alerting those affected by the “securi… Continue reading University of Toledo alerts some faculty, students of lost flash drive
And poof… It sounds like many people may have known for years about the sloppy infosecurity being used but no one really did anything to put a more secure system in place… and so, of course, it was inevitable that disaster struck. Matthew M… Continue reading Marines make changes after data of 164,000 people lost on Okinawa
How many monetary penalties will it take before the Crown Prosecution Service gets its data protection act together and does a reasonable job of protecting victim-related information?This is the second monetary penalty they’ve been hit with in th… Continue reading UK: Crown Prosecution Service fined £325,000 after losing victim interview videos
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 this week from the Department of Social Services t… Continue reading NY: 50 case files from Dept. of Social Services may have been exposed to data breach
Paul Farrell reports: The Commonwealth Bank lost the personal financial histories of 12 million customers, and chose not to reveal the breach to consumers, in one of the largest financial services privacy breaches ever to occur in Australia. BuzzFeed N… Continue reading Australia’s Largest Bank Lost The Personal Financial Histories Of 12 Million Customers
From their notice of March 30, 2018: NYC Health + Hospitals this week began to notify 595 NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem patients about the possible disclosure of some of their protected health information (PHI). The possible disclosure—a laptop compute… Continue reading NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem notifies 595 patients of missing laptop with their protected health information
Su Xinqi and Emily Tsang report on the case of a missing brain. Okay, that’s unsettling, I agree, but I’m posting a link to their coverage because of what else was in the story: Meanwhile, in a separate incident, Prince of Wales Hospital ap… Continue reading Hong Kong hospital patient records left in a taxi