Sean Lyngaas reports: A sweeping cybersecurity breach of congressional members’ private information was more extensive than previously known and affects not only House lawmakers and their staff but also Senate employees. The Senate sergeant-at-arms alerted Senate staff about the breach Thursday in an email obtained by CNN. The compromised data is “extensive,” and includes sensitive data such…
Category: Health Data
Cerebral Inc. notifying 3,179,835 patients of tracking technologies breach
Cerebral Inc. has notified HHS of a breach affecting 3,179,835 individuals. They are the latest entity to report a breach due to exposing personal or protected health information data through tracking analytics. According to April Strauss, Esq.: On March 6, 2023, Cerebral began sending emails to users of its platforms, admitting that it uses pixels…
Asante Notifies More than 8,800 Patients Whose Records Appeared to Be Inappropriately Accessed by a Physician
Asante provides healthcare services in southern Oregon and northern California. On February 28, it issued a notice about an insider-wrongdoing incident. As they describe it on their site, they became aware of a concern that a doctor with admitting privileges, Dr. Paul Hoffman, may have accessed a number of patients’ records without a valid clinical…
Northeast Surgical Group notifies 15,298 patients of a HIPAA breach, but doesn’t tell them their information has been dumped.
In January, the BianLian ransomware group added an unnamed medical group to their leak site. In February, they also posted a teaser on their BreachForums account. Although neither listing named the victim, DataBreaches was able to figure out that it was the Northeast Surgical Group (“NESG”) in Michigan. DataBreaches reached out to them multiple times,…
ES: Cyberattack at l’Hospital Clínic has affected laboratory, pharmacy, and emergency services (updated)
Translation: A ransomware-type computer attack at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona affects the center’s Laboratory, Pharmacy and emergency services. […] The Clinic has reported that they have coordinated with Salut and the other hospitals in the city to attend to emergencies, medical transport and urgent codes (such as strokes or heart attacks). At the moment, patients already admitted have…
The Chautauqua Center notifies patients of breach; changes EMR provider
The Chautauqua Center (TCC) in New York has disclosed a HIPAA breach by a business associate. The business associate’s error resulted in the protected health information of 747 physical and occupational therapy patients being made accessible to other covered entities. According to their notification letter to those affected, the breach occurred on December 22nd at…