Meg Haskell of the Bangor Daily News reports that 660 patients at Eastern Maine Medical Center will be receiving letters that their personal information was on a hard drive that was discovered missing on December 22, 2017. The hard drive, owned and operated by an unnamed vendor, held information on patients who underwent cardiac ablation between Jan. 3,…
Month: February 2018
Logs audit reveals The Peds in Las Vegas suffered insider-wrongdoing breach in 2014
There is so much wrong with this one that although I give them great credit for admitting they had a breach four years ago that they first discovered, I find their notification quite concerning. From The Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Specialists, 5235 South Durango #103, Las Vegas, NV 89113: On 11 January 2018, during an audit of…
Records of pain device patients on stolen Nevro laptops
Nevro Corporation in California provides what they call HF10 therapy devices for patients coping with chronic pain. After several laptops with patient data were stolen during an office burglary, they had to notify patients that their information was on the unencrypted devices: name, street address, birth date, procedure date, medical device identifiers (such as serial number),…
Fresenius Medical Care North America settles HHS OCR complaint for $3.5m plus corrective action plan
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), and to adopt a comprehensive corrective action plan, in order to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. FMCNA…
Hackers breached BeeToken’s email list and stole $1M worth of Ethereum
TNW reports: It appears cryptocurrency startup BeeToken, which promised to disrupt the home sharing industry by putting its service on the blockchain, has been hacked. The attackers are actively targeting its initial coin offering (ICO) with phishing attacks and have already duped gullible investors for over $1 million worth of Ethereum. The company has confirmed…
Access to Wisconsin schools data limited after tech team finds hacking risk
Annysa Johnson reports: Access to data maintained by the state’s Department of Public Instruction was limited Tuesday after the state’s technology staff found vulnerabilities in coding that could have opened the data sets to hackers if exploited. DPI spokesman Thomas McCarthy said there was no data breach. However, he said, technicians had to take down several…