Marie McCullough reports: The Crozer-Keystone Health System revealed Friday that about 900 bariatric-surgery patients’ privacy was breached because of an email error. According to the health system, an employee sent an email June 20 to let bariatric-surgery program patients know about a support group. The email addresses were inadvertently placed in the “cc” or carbon-copy…
Month: July 2016
Prosthetic & Orthotic Care confirms hack by TheDarkOverlord
Another one of TheDarkOverlord’s targets has issued a statement about the hack and theft of their patient information. DataBreaches.net had identified this entity and first reported on the hack on July 9. Somewhat disturbingly, and as we have seen in other cases with the same parameters, Prosthetic & Orthotic Care (P&O Care) does not appear to…
SGI catches snoop in Vonda, notifying customers of privacy breach
CBC reports: Someone in an SGI office in Vonda, Sask. has been snooping. That’s the finding of an SGI investigation after a privacy breach was discovered. The insurance company said customers are being notified. SGI said in new release that a worker at an independent motor licence issuer in the community was snooping and making random searches…
MS: Jefferson Medical Associates notifies patients of new and old breaches
Quentis Jones reports that Jefferson Medical Associates has issued a warning to a small group of their patients after a recent data breach of their systems. According to the release, on June 1 an unauthorized individual not affiliated with JMA accessed a database containing a limited history of prescriptions and other information for a small…
NY: St. Peter’s gave me other people’s medical records: patient
St. Peter’s Health Partners is looking into a possible confidentiality violation after a man picked up his family’s records at the recently closed Altamont Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and discovered he also received other patients’ medical records. Read more on Albany Times Union.
Another Bizmatics client notifies patients of breach
We’re still learning of other Bizmatics clients who were notified that their patient data may have been acquired by criminals. Lifewellness Institute in California notified HHS this month that they had notified 2,473 of their patients of the incident. In a letter to their patients, a copy of which was kindly provided to DataBreaches.net by Lifewellness Institute, they…