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In the last year and a half, three Attorneys General have accused CVS of not protecting patients’ private informati

• The Texas Attorney General sued CVS in April 2007, charging the company with dumping more than 1,000 customer records – including names, addresses, dates of births, types of medications and credit card numbers – into a garbage bin outside a CVS store.
  
  
• The Indiana Attorney General filed similar charges with the state board of pharmacy in September 2007, just five months later, charging that CVS had failed to properly dispose of patient information. “Pharmacy staff carelessly included private health information with general trash rather than destroy this protected information in a manner designed to properly safeguard patients’ privacy,”  the Attorney General said in a press release.
  
  
• In June 2008, the California Attorney General called on CVS to “quickly resolve its practice of not protecting private consumer information,”  after receiving reports that CVS pharmacies were not properly handling patients’ private data.

 

 Read More:
"Attorney General Abbott Continues Aggressively Enforcing Identity Theft Prevention Law," Texas Attorney General press release,  April 17, 2007.

"Attorney General Files Charges against Pharmacies and Pharmacists for Leaving Personal Prescription Information Unguarded," Indiana Attorney General press release, September 20, 2007.

"Brown Calls On CVS Pharmacy To End Expired Product Sales, Protect Confidential Information," California Attorney General press release, June 19, 2008.