Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website…
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$1 million payout for Shelburne hospital privacy breach
Amy Woolvett reports: A class action lawsuit has just set a precedent in Canada against snooping into medical files. “If you a breach (a person’s privacy) you are going to pay for it,” said Raymond Wagner, a lawyer who represented the 681 eligible class members involved in the biggest privacy breach in Canada. Halifax Supreme…
Airway Oxygen notifies 500,000 patients after ransomware attack
Earlier this month, Purity Cylinder/Airway Oxygen in Michigan reported a breach to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. According to their notification, on April 18, they discovered that ransomware had been installed on their network. There was no evidence, they say, that any protected health information was actually accessed or acquired, but they notified those who…
Cleveland Medical Associates tells patients of ransomware incident
Cleveland Medical Associates, PLLC, a four-physician primary care clinic in Cleveland, Tennessee, is providing notice to its patients that on April 21, 2017, it discovered that, the evening before, its computer network had been impacted by ransomware, a type of computer virus that locks up, or encrypts, information and demands that a payment be made…
Nearly 3,000 Patients Notified Of St. Thomas Rutherford Health Information Breach
Documents for a local hospital were found on the side of a rural roadway, and the information about almost three thousand patients may have been compromised. Officials with Saint Thomas Rutherford notified 2,859 patients about the breach which was discovered in April. Read more on NewsChannel5.
They view it as “Hollywood,” but TheDarkOverlord hit another medical entity (Update 2)
Overnight, TheDarkOverlord announced another hack, leaking some patient data into their Twitter timeline. We’re upping the heat on Hollywood. It’s time for another round. This time: something a little different. — thedarkoverlord (@tdohack3r) June 21, 2017 We’re upping the heat on Hollywood. It’s time for another round. This time: something a little different. The data…