Another legal services vendor discloses a breach: Compex Legal Services Inc. (“Compex”) recently discovered an incident that may have impacted the privacy of information related to certain individuals. Compex provides record retrieval and litigation support services to insurance carriers, third party administrators and law firms. As Compex continues to investigate and work toward notifying impacted…
Category: Health Data
39 healthcare providers sue UnitedHealth over Change hack
There’s no way that DataBreaches has enough time to track all of the lawsuits filed against UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries, Optum and Change Healthcare, as a result of the Change Healthcare hack, but over on Becker’s Hospital Review, Giles Bruce reported about a suit of particular note: Thirty-nine healthcare providers and the National Community…
Acadian Ambulance hit by ransomware attack; Daixin claims info on 10 million patients stolen
A new listing on Daixin Team’s leak site suggested serious problems for Acadian Ambulance. Acadian Ambulance offers several health-related services, including emergency medical transportation, non-emergency transportation, at-home health care, air services, and medical education. It has locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Acadian has been in business since 1971, and at this point, employees…
MNGI Digestive Health joins ranks of “late-notifiers,” finally notifying more than 767,000 patients of breach last summer
This seems to be the month in which many people affected by healthcare breaches in the summer of 2023 are first being notified individually (see, for example, reports on Southcoast Medical and Florida Community Health Centers). Here’s a third one: MNGI Digestive Health was the victim of a cyberattack on August 20, 2023. They reportedly discovered the breach…
Cyberattack on prescription service MediSecure affects 13 million Australians
Angus Dalton reports: Almost 13 million Australians had personal and health-related data stolen in the MediSecure cyberattack earlier this year, making the mass hack one of the largest ever. The Melbourne-based online prescription service company announced it was the victim of a ransomware data breach in May. A week later, a hacker claiming to possess…
No need to hack when it’s leaking, Wednesday edition: Nearly 150,000 Records Were Exposed Online by On-Site Medical Service Provider
Website Planet reports that Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password-protected database that contained 148,000 records belonging to InHouse Physicians — a healthcare provider that offers on-site medical services and wellness programs to organizations, including corporate health and wellness solutions, event medical services, and occupational health programs. The non-password-protected database contained 148,415 PDF documents totalling 12 GB. Each document…