Settlements in two lawsuits against home healthcare entities were announced recently on Top Class Actions. Both settlements have yet to receive final approval, but here’s what we know so far: Maxim Healthcare Group Maxim HealthCare Services provides staffing for nursing services that include in-home services. A breach in October – December 2020 affected staff but…
Category: Health Data
NY: Catholic Health patients may have fallen victim to data breach by a consultant’s employee
Evan Anstey reports: Some of Catholic Health’s long-term care residents may have fallen victim to a data breach that took place over the summer. The health organization says Minimum Data Set Consultants (MDS), a firm that provides consulting services to skilled nursing facilities, was the target of the breach. MDS started investigating this in March,…
NHS launches probe after five-year-old takes records of 150 patients to school to use as ‘drawing paper’
Shaun Wooller reports: The NHS has launched a probe after a pupil took printed records containing details of 150 patients to school to use as drawing paper. Bedfordshire Hospitals Foundation Trust confirmed it is investigating how the child got hold of the personal documents. However, it refused to say if any of the pupil’s relatives worked for…
NY: University Urology notifies 56,816 patients of unauthorized access to their PHI
University Urology (UU) in New York City recently posted a notice about an incident on their website. Their notice, dated May 1, explains that on or about February 1, 2023, UU detected suspicious activity in its environment. The investigation revealed that an unauthorized actor had gained access to protected health information stored in UU’s system….
Medusa ransomware group starts leaking data from Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre; threatens to leak more
Ellen Whinnet reports: A ransomware gang is claiming to have breached a Sydney cancer hospital, and is threatening to release data unless payment is made. NSW Health confirmed it was aware of the threats made against the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre at Westmead Hospital, and was investigating. The global ransomware gang Medusa posted on…
Brightline continues notifying clients of GoAnywhere incident; count continues to rise (more than 1 million)
Updated May 3: When DataBreaches checked Clop’s leak site today, the listing for Brightline was gone. Whether this means that they paid Clop to get it removed, or if its removal is just temporary remains to be seen. But out of all the health-related Fortra clients this site reported on in April, the Brightline listing…