Today’s Poughkeepsie Journal has a news story about a phishing incident that appears to have been discovered in July, 2018 that affected an unspecified number of Health Quest patients. From the available information, it sounds like Health Quest first discovered email attachments in January, 2019, and then it took them until April 2, 2019 to…
Category: Health Data
NY: Broome County security breach put employees’ and clients’ personal information at risk
Katie Sullivan Borrelli reports: Broome County says an unauthorized individual may have had access to the personal information of county employees and individuals who receive the county’s care, including their Social Security numbers, medical records and bank account information. In a news release sent on its behalf by Mullen Coughlin LLC, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, the…
Tennessee, 15 Other States Reach $900,000 Data Breach Settlement With Medical Informatics Engineering
Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced Wednesday that a U.S. District Court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. This case was the nation’s first-ever multistate lawsuit involving a HIPAA-related data breach. The lawsuit, led by Indiana, was filed in December of 2018 against…
People Inc. reports data security breach involving clients’ personal info
Harold McNeil reports: People Inc. said it was the target of a data security breach that involved protected health information of some of its current and former clients. People Inc. learned that two employees’ email accounts were breached and their emails contained personal information about clients, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account information,…
OH: Personal information of more than 2400 TriHealth patients wrongly shared with student
Max Londberg reports: The personal information corresponding to more than 2,000 TriHealth patients was shared with a student mentee who was not authorized to view the data. The medical system announced the discovery Friday afternoon in a press release. Shared data included patients’ first and last names, ZIP codes, ethnicity, dates of birth and cancer…
Ca: Laptop with personal information of up to 225 minors stolen from Thompson NRHA building in March
The Thompson Citizen reports: Personal information of up to 225 minors may have been on a laptop that was stolen from the Northern Regional Health Authority (NRHA) administration building in March. The theft of the laptop was discovered March 27. The computer contained client names, birth dates, genders, personal health information numbers (PHINs) and the…