Lisa Wachsmuth reports: A “cyber incident” at a Wollongong medical centre has patients concerned their records may be lost, or even illegally accessed. GPs at Ochre Health Wollongong have been unable to access their patients’ medical records for two weeks after the incident which has still not been resolved. A spokesperson for Ochre Health has moved…
Category: Health Data
Ottawa Hospital fires employee after privacy breach involving 30 patients
Elizabeth Payne reports: A family says they are devastated and are asking for stronger protection measures to be put in place after a breach of patient records at The Ottawa Hospital. The hospital discovered the breach during a routine privacy check earlier this year. Thirty patients have been notified that their health records were improperly…
Hackers stole data of PM Lee and 1.5 million patients in ‘major cyberattack’ on SingHealth
Today reports: In the biggest and most serious cyberattack yet on Singapore, hackers last month broke into SingHealth‘s IT systems to steal the data of 1.5 million patients and records of the outpatient medication given to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the authorities said on Friday (July 20). Read more on Today. Here is the…
Ballad Health employee fired after accessing patients’ records without permission
Slater Teague reports: Ballad Health says an employee has been fired for accessing patients’ records without an appropriate reason to do so. The health system says it learned of the data breach on May 28. According to Ballad, the former employee viewed patients’ records, accessing both demographic and clinical information. Read more on WJHL.
Samsam infected thousands of LabCorp systems via brute force RDP
Steve Ragan reports: LabCorp, one of the largest clinical labs in the U.S., said the Samsam ransomware attack that forced their systems offline was contained quickly and didn’t result in a data breach. However, in the brief time between detection and mitigation, the ransomware was able to encrypt thousands of systems and several hundred production…
New England Dermatology creates new protocol after improper patient records disposal
Amy Phillips reports: New England Dermatology, P.C., d/b/a New England Dermatology and Laser Center (“NEDLC”), is reporting that paper records containing health information of patients who were seen at their Northampton office during a period from approximately June 10, 2013 to May 23, 2018 were discarded without first being shredded. NEDLC self-reported the lapse in appropriate waste…