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Canada: Confidential patient data sent to wrong company in Manitoba
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:34:28 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/article/44d1f36c0a01040800f0541de8a732f1/pg1.htm A small Lockport, Manitoba-based distributor of herbal remedies has for the past 15 months been mistakenly receiving faxes containing confidential information belonging to hundreds of patients with Prudential Financial Inc.'s insurance group. The data exposed in the breach -- and faxed to the company by doctors and clinics across the U.S. -- included the patients' Social Security numbers, bank details and health care information. So far, at least, efforts to deal with the issue appear to have failed, said Jody Baxmeyer, vice president of marketing at North Regent RX, the company that's been receiving the faxes. The situation has been caused by North Regent's toll-free fax number, which is nearly identical to one used by Prudential to receive medical claims-related information from doctors, Baxmeyer said. In fact, the two numbers differ by only one digit, Baxmeyer said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 720 incidents over 7 years.
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