KDRV reports: Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) revealed on Thursday that the private data of more than 350,000 clients may have been accessed in a massive data breach that began earlier this year. The agency said that the breach stemmed from a phishing scam that infected the emails of nine separate employees after they…
Category: Health Data
Settlement in 2015 UCLA Health Data Breach Class Action
Top Class Actions reports: A $7.5 million class action settlement has been reached, resolving claims that a July 2015 data breach exposed personal information stored by the UCLA Health Network. The UCLA Health class action settlement provides $2 million to pay for unreimbursed loss claims and preventative measure claims. In addition, UCLA Heath has agreed…
ZOLL notifying 277,319 patients of vendor data exposure incident
ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group Company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions. A press release on March 18 described an incident that impacted what they describe as “some patients’ personal and medical information.” On January 24, 2019, ZOLL discovered that some email archived by an unnamed third-party service provider had been exposed…
HIV data leak: Mikhy Farrera Brochez pleads not guilty in US court
Chris Kenning reports the latest development in a case this site has been following since January (search “Brochez” for other coverage). Mikhy Farrera Brochez on Tuesday (Mar 19) pleaded not guilty in a US federal court in Kentucky to charges related to stolen identification documents from Singapore’s HIV registry, according to his lawyer Jay Oakley. The American, who is…
UK: Two Birmingham workers fined for separate data protection breaches
From the ICO: Employees could face a criminal prosecution if they access or share personal data without a valid reason, the Information Commissioner’s Office has warned. The warning came after Birmingham Magistrates’ Court fined two workers in separate cases for breaching data protection laws. Faye Caughey, 32, of Ringswood Road, Solihull was employed at the…
NJ Based Home Health Radiology Services Leaked Nearly 40k Case Files
Jeremiah Fowler reports: On March 1st I discovered a non-password protected database that contained what appeared to be medical case files. I immediately notified the organization that we suspected was responsible based on information found inside the database. It was a Friday evening and the phone went straight to voice mail, leaving the database wide…