Ailbhe Daly reports: A man told of his shock last night after finding confidential medical records at the side of a road. Jimmy McGuirk stumbled across the documents from the A&E of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital on Friday as he picked up litter in Baltray, Co Louth. The 63-year-old said the files contained information on 29…
Category: Health Data
Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery reports data breach
CISOMAG reports: The officials at Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery stated that they’ve fallen victim to a major data theft that exposed its customers’ personal data, including Social Security numbers and limited health information. The Vancouver-based diagnosis and treatment services company stated around 2,800 of its patients and employees may have been affected by the incident….
MedCall Advisors suffers second data leak in less than one month
A few weeks ago, DataBreaches.net reported on a leaky Amazon S3 bucket owned by MedCall Advisors in North Carolina. The leak, which exposed approximately 3,000 patients’ protected health information, was discovered by UpGuard, who published a number of redacted screenshots to document the leak. Their detailed report also noted how Randy Baker, the CEO of MedCall…
An OCR investigation illustrates the value of investigating small and medium-sized entities
One of the common themes in discussing security is that many organizations are not “mature” yet. And of course, as HIPAA recognizes in its security rule, smaller practices should not be expected to do everything you might expect a larger hospital system to do. But even small or medium-sized entities need to comply with the core…
California court allows lawsuit over breach of HIV patients’ information to move forward
There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive people, who had their personal information compromised by a data breach of the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program online enrollment system….
Fugitive from Kentucky charged with breaching computer network at Community Health
Jesse Wells reports: A fugitive from Kentucky is accused of illegally logging into the computer network at Community North Hospital. The suspect, Charles Thomas, is now facing several charges of computer trespass and resisting law enforcement. Court records claim he logged into the computer network using stolen credentials from a hospital employee. Read more on…