Sean O’Riordan and Shauna Bowers report: One of the first legal cases over the release of sensitive medical information on the dark web as part of the HSE cyber hack has been lodged at Cork Circuit Court. The case was lodged on Monday against Mercy University Hospital (MUH) by a Cork solicitor acting on behalf…
Category: Health Data
ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans
Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office reveals that beginning on March 8, there was unauthorized access to some employee email…
Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying it will defend itself vigorously. Marty Stempniak reports: Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself against a recently proposed…
Update on The Woodruff Institute ransomware incident
On June 20, DataBreaches.net reported that The Woodruff Institute in Florida had been attacked by “Grief” threat actors. At that time, the threat actors had dumped some files concerning business operations from the multi-location plastic surgery and dermatology practice, but other than about 50 laboratory test result reports for patients, there was not a tremendous number…
HHS warns entities; patients file potential class action lawsuit over PACS breach
HHS recently issued an alert about a known vulnerability allowing access to some picture archiving communications systems (PACS). The vulnerability had been reported two years ago, and again months later, and there had been updated alerts since then. HHS is advising entities to address this as a priority now if they have not done so…
TX: Fraudster Who Stole Protected Health Information to Fund Spending Spree Sentenced to Prison
There’s an update to a previously noted case in Texas. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Texas on July 8: PLANO, Texas – A McKinney man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today. Demetrius Cervantes, 46, pleaded guilty…