Data breaches reported from 12 medical facilities last month
A dozen medical data breaches were added to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse list last month – and that doesn’t even include Affinity Health Plan’s leaving personal information of more than 400,000 people on their digital copier when the lease was up.
- Our Lady of Peace (Louisville, KY)
Someone lost or stole a flash drive containing personal information of nearly 25,000 of the psychiatric hospital’s patients. Some of the records are from as far back as 2002. - St. Jude Heritage Medical Group (Orange, CA)
Five computers storing the information of 20,000 patients were stolen during a break-in. In this case, the info included names, birth dates and Social Security numbers; some patients’ health information was also on the computers. - The Medical Center (Bowling Green, KY)
- Hutcheson Medical Center and a plastic surgery center (Chattanooga, TN)
Thousands of patient files dating back to 1998 were sent to the Dupont Recyling Center. Information within the files included personally identifying info. Patients who underwent plastic surgery will be mortified to know their photos were also up for grabs. (This data breach actually occurred May 2009, but just made the list April 2010.) - DRC Physical Therapy Plus (Monticello, NY)
Thousands of patients’ records were unceremoniously dumped when the business folded. Police impounded a dump truck loaded with boxes of files and removed another 12 boxes of patient records from the bucket of a front-end loader. - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston)
When thieves snatched a doctor’s laptop, they also got 3,526 patients’ names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, Social Security numbers, birth dates, medical records, prescription records and –in four cases – prescription insurance account numbers. - Brooke Army Medical Center (San Antonio, TX)
The three-ring binder stolen from a case manager’s car contained medical and personally identifying information of 1,272 soldiers and their families. - St. Peter’s Hospital (Albany, NY)
A medical records clerk is accused of stealing an unknown number of patients’ information and using it to open credit card accounts. - ManorCare Health Services (Wheaton, MD)
Which is worse: When a neighbor’s dog craps in your yard, or when patient files from the nursing home next door repeatedly blow into your yard over a period of months? The records include extensive personal and medical information. - St. Francis Hospital (Tulsa, OK)
A grand jury indicted a hospital employee for using the personal information of at least 60 patients to open fraudulent credit card accounts. - Providence Hospital (Southfield, MI)
The hospital is missing a hard drive chock-full of patient information. Hospital officials say only 12 of the records include Social Security numbers, but won’t say how many patient records are on the hard drive. - John Muir Physician Network (Walnut Creek, CA)
Roughly, 5,500 perinatal patients will get the news that their information was on one of two recently stolen laptops.
Someone stole a hard drive that contained the info of women who had bone density testing at the mammography suite between 1997 and 2009.
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