Another exposure breach of transcription records from a medical practice: On December 13, 2014 Mercy Medical Center Redding Oncology Clinic discovered that transcribed physician progress notes containing your demographic and treatment information for services provided during June – October 2014, were publically accessible on a third party website. Upon discovery the third party removed the…
Month: December 2014
Stolen Northwestern Memorial Healthcare computer had information of 2,800 patients
Carlos Sadovi reports: Nearly 3,000 patients are being notified that a laptop computer stolen in October contained health information from patients of the Northwestern Memorial Healthcare group, hospital officials said Friday The 2,800 people had been patients of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Group, officials said in press release…
PA: Police investigate hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy
Ryan Hughes reports: Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a $1 million hacking threat against Pine Forge Academy in Berks County. The school received an anonymous email on Dec. 16 at the campus in Douglass Township. It threatened harm against its computer system and property if demands were not met, state police said Friday. “This person was…
Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected
From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…
Hacked if you do, hacked if you don’t? I almost pity Sony.
Well, sure, this will help. NOT. Seen on Pastebin: MESSAGE TO CEO OF SONY – MICHAEL LYNTON I Dear Mr. Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony Entertainment), We shall first-off begin this message with an expression of sympathy as you have failed to release “The Interview” as you believe that hackers shall carry out a new…
Former Owensboro Medical Health System employee pleads guilty to misusing patient info
There’s an update to a breach PHIPrivacy.net reported in November 2013 involving a billing specialist at Owensboro Medical Health System who used patients’ information to secure loans from online lenders for her own use. This was a criminal prosecution under HIPAA, although there were also other counts under other federal statutes. The Messenger-Inquirer reports that Ilene…