As this site noted in August, health insurer Aetna had a privacy breach when almost 12,000 members’ HIV status was unintentionally disclosed in mailing envelope windows. This week, Aetna announced it was offering immediate assistance to members affected by the breach. It’s unusual to see a breached entity offer such immediate assistance, and I think…
Category: Health Data
NC tech firm to pay $264K fine for Vermont data breach
AP reports that Vermont settled with a subcontractor for its Health Connect service after a breach in which the subcontractor didn’t – and possibly would never have – notified anyone about a breach they had been alerted to: Vermont’s attorney general says a technology company will pay a $264,000 fine for a data breach that…
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center notifies 128,000 patients of ransomware incident
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center disclosed a ransomware incident that may or may not have resulted in access to protected health information. As they explain in their notice to patients of September 24, 2017: On July 26, 2017, Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center discovered that its computer network had been impacted by ransomware,…
$1,000 cheques sent out as court ruling payout for privacy breach at Shelburne Roseway Hospital
This strikes me as considerably more than plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit here would get for a similar breach. Amy Woolvett reports from Nova Scotia: Cheques were delivered last week surrounding the privacy breach of hundreds of people at Roseway Hospital. Victims of the breach are each being issued a $1,000 cheque. On June…
Auburn Eye Care Associates: Can you see it NOW?
Earlier today, TheDarkOverlord revealed another hack involving patient data: Auburn Eye Care Associates of Auburn, CA. We’ve stolen many thousands of patient records from their EHR system. https://t.co/KDdIUJ59OY — thedarkoverlord (@tdo_hackers) September 26, 2017 Auburn Eye Care Associates of Auburn, CA. We’ve stolen many thousands of patient records from their EHR system. http://www.auburneyedocs.com/ Although TheDarkOverlord…
Ca: Huge potential privacy breach exposes Nunavut’s lax file management
Steve Ducharme reports: Thousands of records containing the private clinical information of Nunavut residents treated at the Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit may have gone missing more than a year ago, but the Department of Health decided not to notify the public about what could be a massive information and privacy breach. That’s because health…