Charlie Harman reports: The South East Coast Ambulance Service has experienced a massive data breach and has referred itself to a privacy watchdog. In May, the personal and medical details of all ambulance staff could have been seen by employees outside of senior management. Read more on KentOnline
Category: Health Data
Turkey: KVKK announces data breach suffered by Doctor’s office
From OneTrust DataGuidance: The Turkish data protection authority (‘KVKK’) announced, on 9 July 2020, a data breach suffered by Doctor Atadan Egemen Koyuncu. In particular, the KVKK highlighted that the data controller suffered a cyber attack on 5 July 2020 which affected the patient information system and that the violation was detected on the 6 July 2020. In…
Providence Health Plan notifies members after documents exposed by business associate coding error
June turned out to be a busy month for breach reports involving health/medical data. My worksheet has more than 50 entries and I’m still adding reports as I find them. Today, I found one from Providence Health Plan in Oregon that I thought I’d mention here as it impacted almost 50,000 plan members, and I…
Brazil’s Hapvida Discloses Cyber Breach, Potential Client Data Leak
Reuters reports: Brazilian health insurer Hapvida said in a securities filing on Monday it has suffered a cyber attack potentially involving access to the personal information of its customers. Hapvida said, after a preliminary assessment of the security breach, that the attackers did not access customers’ medical records or financial information. Read more on U.S….
Why should the health plan offer credit monitoring in this case? (UPDATED)
I was reading yet another press release about an incident involving protected health information. This one was from Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia. Let me start by quoting the relevant part and then I’ll meet you on the other side: On May 8, 2020, the Independence Blue Cross Privacy Office was notified that certain member information…
One of Florida’s largest orthopedic providers faces class-action lawsuit after data breach
Is it possible to have a data breach and NOT get sued these days? It doesn’t seem so. Jackie Callaway reports: One of Florida’s largest orthopedic providers is facing a class-action lawsuit after hackers stole personal information from potentially thousands of patients. Attorney John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan filed the lawsuit against the Florida…