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5,000 Health Net employees affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-05 19:04:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Net Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unnamed Victims Connecticut Health Net employees and health-care providers Number Affected About 5,000 employees and "an undisclosed number of health-care providers outside the Northeast Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A laptop computer containing personal...
 
Tags: employees, health net employees, health net, company vendor, vendor, health net vendor, information, personal information, laptop
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Health Costs ". The article details that with the hard economic times even people who have health insurance are being bitten by the ever rising costs of health care. Rising premiums, covering less procedures and care and charging more for prescriptions and medical care combine to put the bite on everyone. From my own experience here are 4...
 
Tags: insurance, health insurance, premiums, employees insurance premiums, insurance company pays, regular insurance, insurance company, care, health care system
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health System (EHS Contractor/Consultant/Branch Advanced Medical Partners, Inc Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data electronic protected health information" "name, procedural dates of service at EHS, name of your insurance company and your date of birth Breach Description A business associate of The Elliot Health System...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...health insurers and other entities to discriminate thieves can use purloined information to obtain medical treatment and prescription drugs and to file false medical claims Evan] Purloined is a funny word This is a large and very significant data breach," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum To commit medical...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services exclusively for government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, WellCare offers a variety of health plans for families, children, the aged, blind and disabled and prescription drug plans, currently serving more than 2.3 million...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from NHLBI contained personal health information

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2008-03-24 22:13:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ("NHLBI Victims participants in a cardiac MRI study conducted between 2001 and 2007 Number Affected 2,500 Types of Data name, birth date, hospital medical record number, and data contained in MRI reports such as measurements and diagnoses ...
 
Tags: information, nhlbi, financial information, medical information, laptop computers, nhlbi laptop computers, confidential information, government laptop computer, government
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion into UMass Amherst University Health Services network

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2008-04-30 15:54:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Services Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data personal information" and "medical records Breach Description Hackers breached the computer system used by UMass Amherst's Health Services, potentially gaining access to thousands of medical records Reference URL CBS Channel 3 News (Springfield UMass Amherst Press...
 
Tags: university health services, university, information, personal information, health services, protect confidential information, contact information, amherst, umass amherst
 
 
 
 
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42,000 West Penn Allegheny Health System Patients

2007-12-28 17:06:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...Health System Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Home care and hospice patients Number Affected 42,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses and patient care information Breach Description On November 24th, 2007 a laptop containing sensitive personal information was stolen from the home of a nurse...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, nurse, home care nurse, patients, home, information warrants, computer
 
 
 
 
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Wisconsin Dept. of Health and Family Services mails Social Security numbers

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2008-01-08 16:08:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Victims SeniorCare and other state program recipients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, addresses and Social Security numbers Breach Description Informational brochures sent by the Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services to recipients of SeniorCare and other state programs were inadvertently printed with Social...
 
Tags: wisconsin, social security, wisconsin medicaid, wisconsin department, family services, department, revenue department situation, revenue, health
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop contained unencrypted Fallon Community Health Plan information

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2008-01-25 11:54:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Plan Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown vendor Victims Fallon Senior Plan and Summit ElderCare customers Number Affected 29,800 Types of Data Names, dates of birth and Medicare identification numbers Medicare identification number" is the generic term for any number, other than the National Provider Identifier, used by a...