(Follow-up) Stolen Peninsula Orthopaedic backup tapes contained some financial info

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May 022009
 

When backup tapes containing patient information on patients of
Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates were stolen while in transit, the practice notified approximately 100,000 patients. Now, Earl Holland reports that the group subsequently discovered that the stolen backup tape also contained credit or debit card information on up to 400 patients. Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates has sent an updated letter to everyone affected. The tape has not been recovered.

MD: Patient records stolen

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Apr 112009
 

Liz Holland of The Daily Times reports that up to 100,000 patients of Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates are being notified that their personal information has been stolen:

The records from Peninsula Orthopaedic — which has offices in Salisbury and Berlin — were stolen March 25 while in transport to an off-site storage facility, Mathias said in the letter.

“While this information was stored in a proprietary database format and would not be readily accessible to the average person without specialized equipment or software, it is capable of being accessed by a third party,” Mathias wrote.

Patients’ personal information including their Social Security numbers, employers and health insurance plan numbers may have been among the information stolen.

Peninsula Orthopaedic Associates has posted a notice on its web site saying, “Patient Notice: On 4/6/09, we mailed notice to our patients of a theft of data that included personal information. This was a bona fide notice and not a hoax. If you have received one of these letters and have questions, you can call us at 1-877-860-1892. ”