KOMO in Washington reports on a ransomware incident originally discovered in June, and first mentioned in the media on July 24. A ransomware attack by hackers has scrambled data on computer systems at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, including patient health information, officials said Wednesday. The attack, which is designed to block the hospital’s…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Clients notified of privacy breach at Child and Family Services
Brian Higgins reports about an incident on Prince Edward Island: Some clients of Child and Family Services on P.E.I. have been notified by registered letter of a security breach involving their personal information. The letter, dated Aug. 6, was sent by the Department of Social Housing and Development to clients whose electronic files were affected. The…
Ugh. Amazon buckets with 1.8 million pharmacy-related files and 1.2 million telemarketing recordings about diabetic supplies found unsecured
Copies of fax cover letters from three pharmacies found exposed in an unsecured Amazon s3 bucket Faxes reveal patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth and their medications and doctors’ names Audio recordings in the second unsecured bucket reveals marketers claiming to represent firms that do not appear to exist as they try to get consumers…
NV: Renown Health warns lost thumb drive could put some patient information at risk
James DeHaven reports: Northern Nevada’s largest health care provider is still looking for a thumb drive containing patient information that first went missing in June. Renown Health on Friday announced it was mailing letters to patients whose information may have been stored on the data storage device. An unnamed Renown employee first reported the thumb…
Patient sues Lehigh Valley Health Network saying doctor illegally tapped his medical records and shared them with business associates
Binghui Huang reports on a lawsuit arising from alleged patient record snooping. But this case seems to have another element to it: what did the health system do after it learned — and confirmed — that patient record snooping had occurred? A man who spent a couple months in Lehigh Valley Hospital claims in a…
University of Hong Kong’s medicine department ‘sorry’ for patient data breach
Raymond Yeung reports: Hong Kong’s top medical school has expressed its “deepest apologies” after a laptop computer containing the personal data of more than 3,600 patients was suspected to have been stolen, causing a massive data breach. A police investigation was under way after the laptop belonging to the University of Hong Kong’s Li Ka…