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Lowell General Hospital notifies patients after firing rogue employee who accessed files improperly

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

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,…

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Real Time Health Quotes leak affected health insurance applicants

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

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…

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Baptist Health Louisville notifies 880 patients after phishing incident

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

Baptist Health Louisville in Kentucky recently notified 880 patients of a phishing incident. The incident was also reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. According to a substitute notice in response to the breach, on October 3, Baptist Health discovered that an employee’s email account credentials were obtained by an unauthorized third-party…

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Mercy Health/Love County Hospital And Clinic Patients Notified Of Medical Records Incident

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

The press release below from Mercy Health/Love County Hospital is described as a supplement to an incident that they – and we – first reported in July. In September, the entity notified HHS that they had notified 13,004 patients, a notification that they reference below as a precautionary measure. I’m not sure why they needed…

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MN: Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in Minneapolis warns clients of data breach

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

KARE reports: A Twin Cities fertility clinic is warning clients about a data security incident that may have put personal information at risk. CCRM Minneapolis, which is located in Edina, says the clinic’s servers were targeted by a ransomware attack on October 3, which triggered an investigation to determine if sensitive information had been put at…

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Former employee reportedly steals mental health data on 28,434 Bexar County patients

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dissent

Samantha Ehlinger reports: The Center for Health Care Services in San Antonio is notifying 28,434 local patients whose Social Security numbers, mental health and other sensitive records were stolen when a former employee allegedly took the data on his personal laptop after he was fired, the company said in a news release. The mental health…

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