ABC17 reports: A data breach has impacted Yale New Haven Health. On Friday, the healthcare system announced that Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven is among many hospitals nationwide that were impacted by software issues at Elekta. Elekta is the company that provides the software to run linear accelerators for radiation treatment of cancer…
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Maine brothers sue Northern Light for sharing their info with Blackbaud
Judy Harrison reports on a lawsuit stemming from the Blackbaud ransomware incident in 2020 that has been covered previously on this site. Two brothers from Holden have sued Northern Light Health over a data breach last May that left them vulnerable to identity theft and affected more than 650,000 people. The complaint, filed Tuesday in…
NC: Wake Forest University Counseling Center sends errant email to hundreds
Cooper Sullivan reports: On the morning of April 14, the University Counseling Center sent out a feedback survey to 860 email addresses — some students, faculty, staff and 68 accounts unaffiliated with the university — in which the recipient list was unencrypted and visible to all who had access to the email. About 10 minutes…
Manager of Hospice and Home Health Companies Sentenced to Prison for Role in $150 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
The following press release provides an update to a case previously noted on this site: A Texas man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy at the Merida Group, a chain of hospice and home health agencies throughout Texas, to falsely convince thousands of patients with long-term incurable…
UK: Aneurin Bevan health board: Theft impacting patient enquiries
Jonathon Hill reports: The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board says it is struggling to respond to patient enquiries after theft of important equipment from one of its sites. In a statement the health board has said: “Due to a break in at one of our premises last night, our Trauma and Orthopaedic Outpatients team is…
School system mistakenly releases names of students, staff with COVID
Jim McConnell reports: The local school system failed to properly redact personal information from a document requested through the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, inadvertently releasing to a parent last week the names of all Chesterfield County Public Schools students and employees who have reported testing positive for COVID-19. Chesterfield resident Grace Olsen, the mother…