In December 2020, DataBreaches reported on a hacking incident involving Dental Care Alliance, a business associate to hundreds of dental practices. Commenting on the incident, DataBreaches wrote: With all that sensitive information involved, you might think that the practice would offer remediation services to the 1,004,304 people affected but they do not seem to have…
Category: Health Data
First Choice Community Healthcare discloses breach but doesn’t reveal it was a ransomware attack
First Choice Community Healthcare (FCCH) is a non-profit healthcare system in New Mexico providing a range of services to the community. In a press release issued today, they describe a security incident that they discovered on March 27, 2022. The notice is also posted on their website. Their notice talks about how the incident “may…
Infinity Rehab and Avamere Health Services notify 380,984 patients about breach at Avamere (with updates)
In April 2022, DataBreaches became aware of a possible breach involving Avamere Holdings, a group of companies providing senior living healthcare and rehabilitation services including IT services. Today, we learned that they did have a breach of their network. Premere Rehab, LLC (“Infinity Rehab”) reported that Avamere Health Services had alerted them that they had…
Mailing and printing vendor issues breach notice on behalf of more than three dozen health plans
Update: On July 27, OneTouchPoint notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that a total of 1,073,316 people were impacted by their breach. In June, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield disclosed a breach involving their business associate, Matrix. Matrix had been notified by OneTouchPoint of a cyberattack that occurred between April 27 and April 28….
ID: St. Luke’s vendor suffers data breach affecting some patients
KMVT reports: St. Luke’s says it was informed by a business vendor of a data breach the vendor says could have affected patients and members of certain customers. The hospital system says one of its vendors informed them of a cybersecurity incident that occurred in late May of this year. The vendor had a contract…
Tenet Health cyberattack, monthlong outage led to $100M in ‘unfavorable impact’
Jessica Davis reports: The April “cybersecurity incident” that led to several weeks of downtime and service delays at Tenet Healthcare facilities caused $100 million in unfavorable impact. The hefty price tag was brought on by lost revenues from interruptions to business operations and remediation. Tenet is one of the largest hospital care service providers in…