In July 2019, this site noted that Wise Health in Texas had notified HHS about a HIPAA breach impacting 35,899 patients. The report concerned a phishing incident in March, 2019 that was discovered in April, 2019. Last week, Wise Health issued another press release, reproduced below. At first blush, it might sound like a new…
Category: Health Data
Threat Vector Number 1
Britton White is a cybersecurity & HIPAA Compliance advisor. The following article is reproduced with his kind permission. Email is the bane of our existence and the number one threat vector….. there’s no other way to say it. I’ve rummaged through over 30 hospitals and hundreds of clinics (some multiple times) in my time conducting…
Potential class action lawsuits filed against two more ransomware victims
On Thursday, I reported on a potential class action lawsuit that had been filed against two hospitals in Puerto Rico that suffered a ransomware attack. As I noted in my post, none of the named plaintiffs claimed that they had suffered any concrete injury or harm other than the cost and time involved in monitoring…
PSL Services in Maine notifies HHS, clients after discovering employee email accounts compromised
A press release from PSL Services in Maine (they are a HIPAA-covered entity): Peregrine Corporation d/b/a PSL Services (“PSL Services”) today announced that a recent event may have impacted the security of personal information relating to certain residents of Maine. While PSL Services is still in the process of identifying impacted individuals in order to…
Plastic Surgery Patient Photos, Info Exposed by Leaky Database
I’ve reported on a number of hacks and leaks involving plastic surgery centers where nude photos of identifiable patients wind up exposed or in bad actors’ hands. Sergiu Gatlan reports on yet another leak. This one exposed hundreds of thousands of documents in a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket owned by NextMotion, a French plastic…
Patients records from Craigavon Area Hospital found on public road
Carmel Robinson reports that patient records containing patients’ names, their age, social history as well as a brief medical history and why they had been admitted to hospital were found on a public road by a man walking with his child: The patient records relate to a date in January and refer to 18 named…