Well, I said that the more I learned about it, a breach affecting more than 250,000 Adams County residents sounded like a bad one. Its “badness” was just confirmed, it seems. WKOW reports: Adams County officials are trying to remove the county clerk from office, after she’s suspected of being connected with a data breach. According to our Madison…
Category: Health Data
NSW Health privacy breach: ‘horrified’ families waiting for answers about patient files found in derelict building
Following up on their earlier reporting, Ange McCormack of Triple j Hack reports that documents left improperly at the Garrawarra center for the aged remain on the floor while “safety procedures around potential asbestos contamination of the site is underway.” Take a look at the scene there: And pictures from other rooms, shown in their…
Convicted of health care fraud, de-licensed physician just steals another doctor’s identity….
In June, I posted an item about how BCBS of Illinois was notifying people after a vendor informed them that law enforcement had alerted them that a vendor’s employee was not a licensed physician but an identity thief. That story did not seem to get a lot of press attention, but subsequent revelations named the physician…
Dozens of Norfolk students’ private health information posted online by school system
Sara Gregory reports: School crisis plans that detail the medical issues of dozens of Norfolk students and teachers were posted online last week for anyone to access. […] Larchmont Elementary School’s plans, for instance, list a student with autism and two students with mobility issues. St. Helena Elementary School lists 27 students who have either…
TX: MedSpring Urgent Care notifies 13,000 patients after phishing attack
As Protenus’s Q-2 report for health data breaches in the U.S. indicates, phishing continues to account for a significant percentage of reported breaches. Here’s another phishing incident recently disclosed to HHS that will be in Protenus’s Q-3 report as affecting 13,034 patients: July 20, 2018 At MedSpring Urgent Care (MedSpring), we take the privacy and…
Protenus 2018 Q2 Report: 3.14M Patient Records Breached As Patients Are Increasingly Anxious About Health Data Security
As regular readers know by now, DataBreaches.net compiles data from health data breaches in the U.S. for Protenus, Inc. For the past few years, Protenus published monthly statistics and analyses, but this year, shifted to a quarterly report with more analyses and some fascinating proprietary data. Here’s an example of what you’ll find in their…