Lorenzo's Security Blog

  Image via Wikipedia Milton Hospital and Caritas Carney Hospital in Dorchester will soon be contacting thousands of patients whose medical records were found at a public dump in late July. Both hospitals have posted information for patients on their websites and are making plans to send letters to all patients who were involved in [...]

A Portland psychologist has alerted the public that his laptop was stolen last month, possibly exposing personal information for 4,000 patients.  Dr. David Gostnell’s computer was taken from his car on July 7. The laptop contained clinical evaluations, with patients’ full names, diagnoses and Social Security numbers. Gostnell’s briefcase was taken as well. It contained [...]

Image via Wikipedia The confidential health information of about 1,600 patients of Texas Children’s Hospital is at risk after a doctor’s laptop containing clinical and demographic information was stolen 2½ months ago. Notifying letters were mailed to parents of the affected children, cardiology patients of a Baylor College of Medicine doctor who practices at Texas [...]

  Image via Wikipedia The University of Louisville in Kentucky on June 2 posted a public notice of a data breach in which protected health and financial information from its kidney disease program was posted on a publicly accessible Web site for 19 months.  According to local media reports, a physician who set up the [...]