Posts Tagged ‘health data privacy’

Stolen Laptop: Laptop and Printouts with PII about 600 Students in Colorado

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

The Longmont, CO Daily Times reported December 14 that a nurse’s laptop was stolen from her car whle she was parked at a restaurant, along with paper records containing personally identifiable information (PII): “students‚Äô names and dates of birth; the names of their schools and what grade they are in; the students‚Äô Medicaid numbers; and their parents‚Äô names.”

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Stolen Laptop: Laptop and Printouts with PII about 600 Students in Colorado

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

The Longmont, CO Daily Times reported December 14 that a nurse’s laptop was stolen from her car whle she was parked at a restaurant, along with paper records containing personally identifiable information (PII): “students‚Äô names and dates of birth; the names of their schools and what grade they are in; the students‚Äô Medicaid numbers; and their parents‚Äô names.”

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Stolen Laptop: Cleartext Medical PII on 25,000 in Pennsylvania

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

On December 14 WCPO TV 9 News reported:

“A break-in in Springdale, Ohio is affecting thousands of people in Pennsylvania. The office of Electronic Registry Systems on Northland Boulevard was broken into Thanksgiving weekend and a computer was stolen. That computer had medical records on it for some 25,000 participants in a Pennsylvania health plan. Police don’t suspect I.D. theft. They say, in other recent cases, the thieves wiped the computer’s hard drive clean and then tried to re-sell it.”

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