A report by Greenbone Networks in September about the leak of medical images online made waves — including spurring Senator Warner to ask HHS OCR what it was doing in response to the report. Today, Greenbone reached out to a number of sites to alert us all to an update to their report. From their…
Category: Health Data
IE: Liver patients exposed in data breach
John Burke reports: Patients at a Dublin-based company, which conducts liver scanning procedures, have been informed of a significant data breach affecting the company’s email system. RTÉ’s This Week programme has learned that the company, Liver Wellness, wrote to customers last month to say that the company’s email account had been hacked. The company said…
AU: Drug rehab patients left exposed after fraudster hacks files
Deborah Cornwall reports: A major security breach at one of NSW’s largest drug rehabilitation services has left hundreds of past and current patients at risk, with many reporting their bank, tax and superannuation accounts, as well as highly confidential records, have been hacked. Adele House runs in-house drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Werrington, in…
CAH Holdings issues notice after employee email accounts compromised
What follows is a somewhat unsatisfactory notice. It does not indicate when the email accounts were compromised. It does not indicate when the firm first discovered it or how they discovered it. It does not indicate how many people are being notified by them. It does not explain to patients why a holdings firm has…
Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center notifies patients of May data security incident
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center (“Choice Cancer Care”) operates cancer treatment centers in Texas where it offers individualized cancer treatment plans for patients. Choice Cancer Care is providing notice of an incident that may have involved the privacy of certain patient information in its care. While, to date, the investigation found no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of…
Select Health Network reveals compromise of employee email accounts that may impact an unspecified number of patients
The following press release is by what appears to be a business associate under HIPAA. It does not name the covered entities whose patients or insured members may have been impacted. Will we see notices from those covered entities? Probably not, unless more than 500 were affected for a particular covered entity. The notice also…