Craig Schneider reports: The FBI is investigating the theft of medical records of patients at Grady Memorial Hospital, officials said Friday. Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson provided few details on the thefts that were discovered late Thursday. She said it remains unknown how many patient records were stolen, which patients were affected or how the...
What the I-Team found in one unlocked Dumpster behind the Postal Annex in Lemon Grove was account numbers, Social Security numbers, medical records and even credit card bills. All of these highly sensitive, personal documents belong to people who have mailboxes at the Postal Annex. I-Team reporter Kerstin Lindquist learned that most of...
Jason Hildago reports: The fallout continued Thursday from the announcement by Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center of a potential database intrusion that might have exposed the personal information of thousands of clients and patients. Several recipients of the letters expressed concern about the nature of the database, including its size, about 128,000 records, and...
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data...
Bob Dunn reports: Sheriff’s detectives are looking for a Fort Bend County medical clinic employee believed to have contributed patient information to a major area identity theft ring. Tracy Spencer-Gilmore, formerly with Kelsey Seybold Clinic, was one of 38 people indicted over the past several weeks in connection with an identity theft ring...
Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center sent warning letters this month to about 128,000 patients and clients after a possible intrusion into a proprietary databases. The database, used for Saint Mary’s health education classes and wellness programs, contained personal information such as names and addresses, limited health information and some Social Security numbers. The database...
Adrianna Hopkins reports: It’s proof that identify theft can strike at the places where you should feel most safe. Erika Bradford’s facing charges of ID theft after allegedly stealing patient’s social security numbers at the doctor’s office where she worked. Bradford then opened credit cards in the victim’s names. The story does not...
Thousands of patient records have been stolen while they were in storage at an unknown location in the Rochdale area. The data, belonging to 3,500 patients from Trinity Medical Centre on Winton Street in Littleborough, was taken during a burglary on 12 July. The stolen records contained personal details and full medical history of...
Enric Volante reports in the Arizona Daily Star: Mismanagement at the federal Indian Health Service has resulted in millions of dollars of equipment being lost or stolen across the nation, including in Arizona, congressional investigators reported. Gregory D. Kutz, managing director of forensic audits and special investigations for the GAO, the investigative arm...
Tougher controls to protect patients’ personal and medical data should be introduced at the city’s hospitals following a series of security blunders, the territory’s privacy watchdog said Tuesday. Roderick Woo, the privacy commissioner, made 37 recommendations to the Hospital Authority after inspecting the data security system at one of its hospitals. Full story –...