A long-running insider snooping breach was first detected by the health authority last year. When the agency investigated, they found an employee had snooped in the records of 880 clients over a period of seven years. The Estevan Mercury reports that as a result of the incident and their findings, the authority has implemented a…
Category: Health Data
More details emerge on The MENTOR Network breach
On March 21, National Mentor Healthcare, doing business as Georgia MENTOR, announced that they were notifying patients of a data breach. A disk with protected health information mailed to them by a software provider was lost in the mail, they explained. They had reportedly discovered the loss on December 21. They did not disclose when…
Il: Group charged with dissemination of privileged information of women they sought to prevent from getting abortions
Insider breaches are global, and attempts to stop women from controlling their own bodies are also, sadly, global. Gilad Morag reports from Israel: The cyber division of State Attorney’s Office charged at the Tel Aviv District Court a medical secretary at a private Be’er Sheva clinic as well as two employees of the Hidabroot for…
“First do no harm” should be “First, secure your patient data, Doctor!”
When they discovered more than 42,000 patient records and millions of patient clinical notes exposed on a misconfigured rsync backup, researchers at UpGuard responsibly set out to notify the entity to secure their data. It turned out to be a Herculean task that would take almost two months and multiple entities to get the job…
UK: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership apologizes for data breach
Natalie Tipping reports: A Kent NHS Trust has apologised to patients after their records were accessed inappropriately, leading to a police probe into the incident. Letters have been sent out to patients of the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) detailing that a member of staff has been dismissed from their…
SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association programming error resulted in mismailed information
From their press release: SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association (“SAMBA”) recently learned of an incident that may affect information related to eligible family members of subscribers (“family members”) covered by the SAMBA Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan in 2017. “We take this incident, and member privacy, very seriously,” Walter E. Wilson, SAMBA’s Executive Director stated….