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Legacy Health email breach exposes 38,000 patients’ information

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Dissent

Elliott Njus reports: About 38,000 Legacy Health patients’ personal, medical or billing information might have been accessed in a May email breach, the health system said Monday. The Portland-based nonprofit health system said someone accessed multiple employees’ email accounts, some of which contained patient information. The breach was not discovered until June 21 and not publicly disclosed until…

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NHS trusts lost or misplaced 9,100 patient records last year

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Dissent

The Commentator reports: The National Health Service (NHS) has lost almost 10,000 patient records in the last year, according to new research from leading tech think tank Parliament Street. The findings are disclosed in a new report entitled ‘NHS Data Security: Protecting Patient Records’ examines the amount of patient records that have been misplaced from…

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$115M Anthem Data Breach Deal Gets Final Nod

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Dissent

Kevin Stawicki reports: A California federal judge on Thursday gave final approval to a $115 million deal that ends claims Anthem Inc. put 79 million consumers’ personal information at risk in a 2015 data breach, casting aside calls for the settlement to go even further to punish the nation’s second-largest health insurer. You can read…

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Augusta University Health breach risks health, personal information of 417,000

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Dissent

Matt Kempner reports on a developing story: A breach of email accounts at Augusta University Health may have exposed sensitive  health and personal information of about 417,000 people, including patients around the state, the university announced Thursday. Those at risk are primarily patients of Augusta University Health, including Augusta University Medical Center (which is the…

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Ca: Flatlands man says health records accessed without authorization

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Dissent

Kevin White reports: A man from the Restigouche region says people should be able to expect privacy when it comes to their health records, even if they live in a small town where everyone seems to know everything about everyone. This after Mark Firth of Flatlands says an employee at the Campbellton Regional Hospital accessed…

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WI: Adams County clerk suspected in connection with data breach affecting more than 250,000

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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