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5,418 Patients Breached by Medical Center

This week’s theft (rip) involves yet another unencrypted external hard drive. kirniki gives the tip-off to an article at Info Tech that gives the details. The Medical Center at Bowling Green discovered the theft on April 1.
Apparently, the stolen hard drive contained patient names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, addresses, and physician names, and [...]

Rip of the Week: More Than 3,526 Patients Breached by Doctor Traveling in South Korea

Newswise carries a press release from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary stating that more than 3,526 patients were affected by a data breach on February 19, 2010. Dr. Robert Levine, a neurologist with a focus on tinnitus (ringing in the ears), was traveling in South Korea when his laptop was stolen.
On that laptop was [...]

Rip of the Week: 447,549 MORE People Breached by BlueCross BlueShield Incident

Things continue to get worse for a major theft from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Back on October 2, 2009, 57 computer hard drives were stolen from an office at the state’s largest health insurer. The breach incident page at DataLossDB is a good clearinghouse for information on the theft. The hard drives contained a large [...]

Rip of the Week: Medical Data of 5,306,000 Individuals Breached Since 2008

As the healthcare industry moves toward electronic medical records (EMRs), fear about their security continues to be fed by statistics such as these, reported by InformationWeek. Thanks to Redemtech for the tip. In a good synopsis, Nicole Lewis reports on a new study from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), which revealed that [...]

Rip of the Week: 12,500 Medical Records Breached by Shands

In a breach sure to end up listed on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach bad-list, Shands at the University of Florida sent notification letters to about 12,500 people, warning them of a laptop theft at the end of January.
The Independent Florida Alligator reports (and thanks to lyger on DataLossDB for the [...]

Rip of the Week: Hospital Apologizes for Medical Data Breach

We’ll combine a couple of medical data thefts for this week’s Rip of the Week.
First, the San Francisco Business Times reports that UC San Francisco reported a laptop theft that occurred on our about November 30, breaching 4,400 patients of the UCSF School of Medicine. The data included names, medical record numbers, age and clinical [...]

Rip of the Week: 10,000 Detroiters At Risk After Data Breaches

Happy New Year to all! My hope would be for a 2010 that’s way better than 2009 with respect to the flood of data breaches. We shall see. I cannot say I’m truly optimistic.
This weeks’ Rip of the Week concerns two devices stolen from the health department in Detroit. Thanks go to Redemtech for the [...]