Jason Braverman reports: Kroger announced today that a box of pharmacy records was lost. They said in late July, a records management service, Retrievex, Inc., the company’s business associate, shipped a box of pharmacy records to the Woodstock Kroger via a third-party common carrier. Retrievex confirmed with the carrier that the box was lost in…
Category: Health Data
Open wide and say, “Ugh, My Data!!!!!”
This is the story of how mapping and analysis of an open elastic search led to the discovery of a misconfigured Amazon s3 bucket that exposed data from hundreds of thousands of dental patients. If you live in Brazil, you may already be experiencing breach fatigue from having had so much of your personal and…
Ca: Dozens of patient records stolen from Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital
CBC reports: The personal health information of 54 minors was stolen this week from a locked cabinet at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg, the province’s Shared Health agency said in a Friday news release. The stolen records relate to two days’ worth of scheduled surgical procedures for youths from Manitoba, Ontario and Nunavut. Read more on…
Irish beauty chain probes ‘possible patient data breach’
John Reynolds reports: THÉRAPIE Clinic, a chain of beauty treatment outlets, is investigating a possible data breach involving patient records. It is believed that patient information that may have included medical records had been accessed or taken without permission by a former employee. Read more on Independent.ie. I was initially surprised that the clinics’ records…
MO: Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Center discloses ransomware attack; some data not recovered
AP reports: Officials at a St. Louis health center that serves needy, uninsured residents says a cyber-attack has caused a data breach that potentially affected 152,000 people. The Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Center said Friday that the attack involved patient information such as addresses and social security numbers, but no patient medical records. Information…
MY: Over 17,000 patients’ personal data exposed on national neurology registry website
The Star (in Malaysia) reports: In yet another data breach, more than 17,000 patients’ personal data have been exposed on the government-linked National Neurology Registry (NNeuR) website due to a scripting error, news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reported. The portal reported that the data breach exposed among others NRIC numbers, phone numbers and addresses…