From the Illinois Attorney General’s Office: Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced an investigation into the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency, which may have exposed the personal information of nearly 12 million patients of Quest Diagnostics (Quest) and 7.7 million Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) patients. Raoul…
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U.S. finds American guilty in Singapore HIV data leak case
Reuters reports: A U.S. citizen who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been found guilty by a U.S. court of illegally transferring personal data and threatening the Singapore government, court filings show. Read more on Reuters.
Just when you think you’ve seen your share of stupid privacy breaches, there’s this one….
“Human error” covers a lot of breaches. Sometimes the errors are truly accidental. Other times, they are errors in judgement. Kerry Campbell reports: P.E.I.’s privacy commissioner says an employee of a dental office on P.E.I. disclosed sensitive, personal health information belonging to more than 1,000 patients, to a member of that staff person’s family. The…
Ellwood City Medical Center Victim Of Cyber Attack, Not Sure If Patient Records Were Exposed
Lisa Washington reports: Ellwood City Medical Center officials are investigating whether any patient records were compromised Tuesday after a cyber attack. The Beaver County Times reports that on Tuesday, officials from Ellwood City Medical Center said the hospital was the victim of a cyber attack. This isn’t the first time the hospital is under scrutiny….
Aetna first notifying 238 Virginia employees of BenefitMall breach that they’ve known about since December, 2018?
In January, 2019, we learned about a breach at Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. d/b/a BenefitMall, a business associate. The breach reportedly affected more than 111,000 insurance members/covered employees of the vendor’s clients. HIPAA Journal covered the incident. Yesterday, Aetna issued a public notice related to the incident. Surprisingly, their notice discloses that by…
Kansas hospital pays $250K to settle charges it falsified EHR security risk assessment
Nathan Eddy reports: Coffey Health System, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Kansas, has agreed to pay a $250,000 settlement for alleged False Claims Act violations related to its meaningful use attestation. Specifically, the U.S. Department of Justice charged that the hospital falsely attested that it had conducted the necessary security assessment to comply with…