While you are eagerly awaiting the release of Protenus’s annual review of 2017 health data breaches, I thought I’d mention that December closed the year out with a bang with 52 possible breaches being disclosed. Only June, 2017 (with 53 reports) exceeded December. Of the 52 entries, 20 were hacking incidents and 17 were insider incidents. Ransomware was specifically mentioned in nine of the incidents.
Not all of these incidents were reported on DataBreaches.net, so you may seem some unfamiliar listings below. If you don’t see an incident below that you think should have been included, keep in mind that sometimes this site reports or include an incident weeks or months before other outlets or resources reports it.
For some incidents, I was unable to obtain additional details about their submissions to HHS.
In alphabetical order, with links to some coverage if you want to know more:
- Absolute Dental Hygiene, LLC
- Arrohealth
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Bronson Healthcare Group (statement had been emailed to DataBreaches.net: phishing incident in June impacted 8,256 patients)
- Center for Health Care Services
- Central Iowa Hospital Corporation d/b/a Blank Children’s Hospital (submitted to HHS)
- Charleston Area Medical Center
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Chilton Medical Center
- Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine Minneapolis
- Colorado Mental Health Institute
- Columbus Surgery Center
- Compassion Care Hospice Las Vegas, LLC (submitted to HHS)
- Dameron Hospital (Report missing – does this involve patient data?)
- Dignity Health Foundation (submitted to HHS)
- Emory Healthcare (University of Arizona College of Medicine)
- Episource
- Eye Physicians
- Franciscan Physician Network of Illinois
- Golden Optometric (Sheldon M. Golden O.D., Optometric Corporation)
- Golden Rule Insurance Company (submitted to HHS)
- Henry Ford Health System
- Kaiser Foundation
- Kaiser Foundation (different incident, listed on HHS)
- Longs Peak Family Practice
- Mad River Twp. Fire and EMS
- MEDHOST (disputed, question: dns redirect incident)
- Memphis Pathology Laboratory d/b/a American Esoteric Laboratory (submitted to HHS)
- Midland Memorial Hospital
- MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena
- Miracle-Ear
- Molina Healthcare (submitted to HHS)
- Mount Carmel Health System
- National Capital Poison Center
- NYU Langone Health Pediatric Surgery Associates
- Pharmacy Innovations (submitted to HHS)
- SAY San Diego (Social Advocates for Youth, San Diego)
- Shohei Ohtani case
- Sinai Health System
- Specialty Physicians of Illinois, LLC
- SSM Health
- St. Charles Health System
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- Stanislaus County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
- UNC Health Care (University of North Carolina)
- University of South Florida, USF Health Care (submitted to HHS)
- Unknown Provider(s)
- Vermont Health Connect
- Wager Evans Dental (BEE Dental)
- Washington Health System Greene
- Washington Hospital
- Women’s Health Consultants
Great job of compiling & reporting!