From the FAQ (both the FAQ and HTML version have occasional errors and label certain dates 2023 when they were 2022): 1. What happened? On December 23, 2022, the California Secretary of State (SOS) was notified by a researcher that the records they were provided to view contained records not older than 75 years. Pursuant…
Category: Health Data
ZOLL Medical notifying 1,004,443 patients of data breach — HIPAA
A number of large recent breaches have involved trackers or analytics, but not all large breaches these days involve trackers. ZOLL Medical is notifying 1,004,443 patients whose protected health information (PHI) may have been compromised in a recent data security incident that didn’t involve pixels or trackers at all. According to ZOLL’s notification, the Massachusetts-headquartered…
Weekend update: Non-US hospitals hit by cyberattacks
Belgium: CHU St. Pierre Cyberattack DHnet in Belgium reports that Saint-Pierre hospital in central Brussels temporarily closed its emergency room and diverted line 112 to other institutions due to a cyberattack early Saturday morning. The attack reportedly disrupted the functioning of many applications, including patient records and telephone lines. By 5:00 pm Brussels time, most…
Data Exfiltration Trends in Healthcare
From the Office of Information Security / HHS and the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center: Data Exfiltration Trends in Healthcare March 9, 2023
Bone & Joint Clinic reports “network disruption” caused HIPAA breach of employee and patient information
Update of March 16: This was reported to HHS as affecting 105,094 patients. Bone & Joint has not replied to DataBreaches’ inquiry as to whether this was a ransomware incident or not. The Bone & Joint Clinic in Wisconsin has notified current and former employees as well as current and former patients of a data…
3,400 death registry records accessed in Hawaii Department of Health data security breach
We do not see many breach notifications from Hawaii, but KHON made us aware of this reminder to disable access when an external employee terminates employment: HONOLULU, HI – The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) will send out notification letters regarding unauthorized access to the DOH Electronic Death Registry System (EDRS), by the end of…