Parker Perry reports: The Mad River Twp. Fire and EMS station is without years of data after its server was breached and encrypted with ransomware. Chief Elmer Beard said the virus was found in August and the department has tried to work out solutions to get the information unencrypted. The hackers demanded payment for the…
Category: Health Data
Glen Head couple charged with identity theft in health insurance fraud case
We all know that medical identity theft to acquire treatment services is a risk, and that commingling of medical records could pose a real danger to patients, but you don’t read about that many actual instances. Here’s one out of New York, as reported by Amelia Camurati: A Glen Head couple was arrested last week for…
Private data on Gloucestershire hospital patients transferred to America by mistake
Matt Discombe reports: Private patient data held by Gloucestershire hospitals was mistakenly uploaded to a server in the USA due to problems with its new electronic record system. Information on 56 patients held by Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had been erroneously copied onto the server in October. The records, which included ‘identifiable sensitive data’…
Henry Ford Health System Warns 18,470 Patients Of Data Breach
CBS reports: Roughly 18,500 patients at Henry Ford Health System have possibly had their personal information stolen in a data breach. Officials say the breach was discovered in early October after the email credentials of a group of employees were stolen, which gave the thief access to patients’ records. Read more on CBS.
Lowell General Hospital notifies patients after firing rogue employee who accessed files improperly
Ah, I feel like I’ve been transported back in time, when it was always so hard to find a notification of a breach on an entity’s web site. I went searching for information on a breach Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts reported to HHS as affecting 769 patients. I was looking for media contact information,…
Real Time Health Quotes leak affected health insurance applicants
So it appears I missed a third-party vendor/business associate leak that affected at least two covered entities and possibly more. Great thanks to Humana for sending along the vendor’s press release when I inquired about a breach report Humana had made to HHS as affecting 5,764 members or potential members. It turns out that the…