There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) has agreed to pay $500,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the…
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Medical Informatics sued by multiple states over 2015 breach
A 2015 hack of Medical Informatics stayed in the headlines for quite a while because it compromised the data, including health information, of 3.9 million people. In addition to suits filed by consumers, state attorneys general have also sued the business associate, as Dave Gong reports: Fort Wayne-based Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. failed to secure…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America Notifies Almost 42,000 Patients of Possible Access to Their Protected Health Information
CORRECTION: I don’t know how I did it, but instead of typing 42,000, I kept typing 92,000 when I originally wrote this one up. The number of patients affected was 41,948, as it said at the bottom of the post. My apologies to CTCA. Another phishing incident where an employee’s email account was storing a…
UK: Hospital staff investigated for ‘spying’ on Sir Alex Ferguson’s medical records while he was fighting for his life
Benjamin Butterworth reports: At least five medics are being investigated over accusations they illicitly accessed Sir Alex Ferguson’s medical records while he was fighting for his life. Britain’s most successful football manager, who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013, received care for a brain haemorrhage at Salford Royal hospital in May. Two doctors, a…
San Mateo Medical Center notifies patients after records erroneously recycled instead of shredded
Updated Feb. 22, 2019. DataBreaches.net was notified that HHS had finally removed the disputed listing from their portal. But when I checked, I found that it had not really been removed. OCR had closed its case and moved the entry to its archived list, with the following note: On November 13, 2018, OCR received a…
Thundermist Health Center dealing with ‘ransomware’ attack
Sarah Doiron reports from Rhode Island: A local health center is working to resolve problems with its computer system after officials say it was the target of a “ransomware” attack. Thundermist Health Center, which is based out of Woonsocket and has offices in South Kingstown and West Warwick, was hit with the attack around 8…