Data Breach news and information

A Florissant, Mo., orthodontist's office has informed 10,000 people that their personal information could be compromised because of a break-in and burglary at its offices in July.
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One warm night in mid-July, more than 4 million patient records breezed out the door of the Advocate Medical Group administrative office in Park Ridge, Ill., in the arms of an unidentified thief who stole four computers from the largest medical group in Illinois. The 1,100-physician medical group...
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Advocate Health Care officials and Park Ridge, Ill., police are investigating a burglary at an administrative building in the Northwest Chicago suburb that may have led to the release of information on 4 million patients.
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Healthcare organizations need to consider all kinds of digital devices, including photocopy machines, in examining their data security.
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Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe, Ontario, says it has fired a nurse for inappropriately accessing the medical records of more than 1,300 patients. The hospital investigated and found multiple breaches of the Personal Information Protection Act by the nurse dating back to 2004.
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A Davenport, Iowa, company has alerted nearly 1,200 former hospital patients about a website data security lapse that exposed their names and birth dates to identity theft.
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Sacramento, Calif.-based Retinal Consultants Medical Group, which oversees eye-care and surgery facilities throughout Northern California, said some personal patient information may have been jeopardized as a result of the recent disappearance of a laptop computer.
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The Oregon Health & Science University is notifying more than 3,000 of its patients of a breach of their personally identifiable information after their data were placed by OHSU resident physicians on a pair of Google's cloud-based information-sharing services.
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About 18,700 students at the University of Virginia have been notified by a campus health official that Social Security numbers were printed along with their names and addresses on a recently mailed brochure touting a commercially offered student health insurance plan.
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X-rays possibly containing personal information about 15,417 Henry Ford Health System patients were stolen from a Detroit warehouse in May, according to a letter the hospital system sent to patients earlier this month.
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