A new leaksite appeared this past week that appears to have been created for one particular incident. The notice begins: Dear Visitor of Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation LEAK website: We regret to inform you that Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation has experienced a complete data breach from its internal servers. This includes the data of all patients, medical…
Category: Health Data
OK: Emergency Medical Services Authority notifies patients of hacking incident
Terré Gables of KFOR reports: Emergency Medical Services Authority (“EMSA”) says, it has identified suspicious activity in its IT network and is mailing letters to patients whose information may have been involved. According to EMSA, on February 13, 2024, EMSA identified suspicious activity in its IT network. EMSA immediately initiated its incident response protocols, which involved…
American Renal Associates patients affected by ransomware attack
Marco A. De Felice reports: The American Renal Associates (now known as Innovative Renal Care), with over 230 locations across the United States, has become the latest victim in the clinical-hospital sector of a ransomware attack. Recently, the Medusa group has made thousands of PHI and PII data stolen from the company’s servers on March 2nd publicly available on…
AHA seeks guidance on reporting breaches linked to Change cyberattack
Naomi Diaz reports: The American Hospital Association sent a letter to the HHS urging them to clarify whether hospitals and health systems should be providing breach notification to patients if protected health information is compromised due to the Feb. 21 cyberattack on Change Healthcare. The March 21 letter, penned to Melanie Fontes Rainer, acting director of the…
Med-Data data leak $7M class action settlement
There is an update to a data leak incident discovered and reported by independent researcher Jelle Ursem and DataBreaches.net in April 2021. Top Class Actions reports that Med-Data, a business associate that handles health insurance claims data, has agreed to pay $7 million to resolve claims that one of its employees publicly posted patient information on…
Another plastic surgery group has fallen victim to a ransomware attack – Long Island Plastic Surgical Group/NYSPG (2)
On March 8, DataBreaches learned of another attack on a plastic surgery group. This time, it was the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, a group that has 10 locations in New York and dozens of doctors. This is another ransomware story that may have a very unhappy ending for patients and employees. Hit by Two…