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CA: Data breach may have exposed personal information of 3,000 Girl Scouts of Orange County

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Dissent

Children’s medical alerts and health conditions may be breached in so many ways outside of the healthcare sector. Schools, sports clubs, camps, and yes, boy scouts and girl scouts, are just some of the organizations that may hold sensitive information that gets breached, with no report needed to HHS. Alejandra Reyes-Velarde reports: Members of the…

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Cyber attack exposed information for 40,000 patients of Sioux City vision clinic

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Dissent

Mason Doktor reports that Jones Eye Clinic and CJ Elmwood Partners, L.P., an affiliated surgery center, experienced a ransomware attack on the evening of August 22. The attack affected 40,000 patients seen between Jan. 1, 2003 and Aug. 23. The providers were able to restore from backup and did not pay any ransom. Their full notice…

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Byram Healthcare notifies patients about rogue insider incident

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Dissent

Byram Healthcare is a firm that provides disposable medical supplies. They were acquired in 2017 by Owens & Minor. On October 22, Byram sent notification letters to patients whose data may have been stolen and/or misused by a former employee. Byram learned of the former employee’s wrongdoing when they were contacted by law enforcement. In…

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Follow-up: Mecklenburg Co. not fined for releasing personal information of health department patients

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Dissent

WSOC-TV reports: The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights did not fine Mecklenburg County for inadvertently providing Channel 9 with the personal medical information of thousands of health department patients in 2017. Records show Mecklenburg County self-reported the potential HIPAA violation on May 4, 2017. In March 2017, in…

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Boots cover up breach of confidentiality; over 400 lost ‘prescriptions’ from its Chaddesden store

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Dissent

Russell Pollard reports: Around 400 people who picked up their prescribed medication from the Boots store on St Mark’s Road in Chaddesden, in early September, should be concerned, and should be asking some serious questions of Boots. The original versions of their ‘prescriptions’ were lost from the store – the whereabouts of their personal data…

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Provides Notice of Two Email Incidents

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Dissent

A press release issued October 23. It does not indicate the number of patients affected by each of the two incidents or how the attacker(s) gained access to employee email accounts. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is providing to the parents or guardians of some of its current and former patients notice of two recent…

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