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NSW Health privacy breach: ‘horrified’ families waiting for answers about patient files found in derelict building

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Convicted of health care fraud, de-licensed physician just steals another doctor’s identity….

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Dozens of Norfolk students’ private health information posted online by school system

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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TX: MedSpring Urgent Care notifies 13,000 patients after phishing attack

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Protenus 2018 Q2 Report: 3.14M Patient Records Breached As Patients Are Increasingly Anxious About Health Data Security

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Telemedicine company exposed data of more than 2 millions patients in Mexico

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Dissent

Another day, another exposed database due to misconfiguration of a MongoDB installation. Bob Diachenko found it and reports on it: On August 3rd, I have discovered that personal information of 2,373,764 patients from Mexico is publicly available through a misconfigured MongoDB instance. Data included such fields as: Full name and gender; CURP number (i.e.  Personal…

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