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Update: Hospital group sued over data mishap
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:25:09 -0500 (EST)
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061031/BUSINESS/610310448/1003 The Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc. and its contractor are facing a lawsuit over a security lapse that potentially exposed the private information of more than 260,000 patients and others associated with the hospital system in Indiana and Illinois. The suit, filed on behalf by Greenwood resident Michael Chaney, claims the defendants violated HIPAA privacy laws and failed "to take reasonable corrective action" such as promptly notifying patients of the breach. Lawyers for Chaney say the suit is also filed on behalf of the thousands of other people whose information was potentially exposed by the incident. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 139 million compromised records in 447 incidents over 6 years.
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