Collaborate Disseminate
Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his co… Continue reading Ca: Information breach at Royal Inland Hospital as binder with patient data goes missing
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the m… Continue reading CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or atte… Continue reading Georgia MENTOR notifies patients after disk with protected health information discovered lost in the mail
Kali Lindsay reports: Council tax demand letters with confidential information were found dumped in a black bin bag on a street. Found near the Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington , the bag was filled with letters from Jacobs Enforcement Agents. The … Continue reading UK: Council letters with personal details found dumped in bin bag on Washington street
Jennifer Williams reports: Scores of confidential social services files containing highly personal details about the lives of vulnerable young people – including abuse survivors – have been found abandoned in an empty Tameside office. The e… Continue reading UK: Scores of confidential files with personal details about abuse survivors were left in our office – and nobody seemed to care
Barb Ickes writes: The 6-year-old’s psychological assessment is marked “confidential,” yet, there it is in my inbox. I didn’t read it. Finding it in my email felt wrong enough. But I understand what Jim Ziebell was doing. He was… Continue reading This time, students’ records left behind
Catherine Shanahan reports: The discovery on a Co Louth street of four pages of doctor’s notes containing patients’ details has been reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. A member of the public found the consultant’s report, which contained the… Continue reading IE: Patients’ details discovered on street
Andrea Kades reports: Nicosia general hospital has lost 94 patient medical records since 2016 that are nowhere to be found, personal data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Thursday. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency, s… Continue reading CY: Hospitals must digitise patients’ records, nearly 100 files missing, data watchdog says
Jonathan Dame reports: Charles River Medical Associates says it lost a portable hard drive believed to contain personal information and x-ray images of everyone who received a bone density scan at its Framingham radiology lab within the past eight year… Continue reading MA: Framingham radiology lab notifies 9,387 patients after drive discovered missing
Oops? The Phnom Penh Post reports: Kandal, Cambodia – Abandoned documents, found by Phnom Penh Post reporters at a raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s in-law, suggest a network of local payoffs across Ka… Continue reading Abandoned documents at raided cockfighting ring allegedly owned by PM’s in-law