Note: the following notification is not from the health center at Tarleton State University, but from a family medicine practice in Rancho Mirage, California owned by Harold L. Tarleton, M.D. I am writing to inform you of a data security incident that may have affected your personal information. Tarleton Medical (“TM”) is committed to providing excellence in…
Category: Health Data
Study: Healthcare Organizations Are Top Targets for Hackers – 68% Have Compromised Email Credentials
Presser, but has some interesting findings: Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company™, today released the results of a study of Dark Web email vulnerabilities in the healthcare industry. The research, conducted in a collaboration between Evolve IP and ID Agent, reveals the pervasive nature of email-based cybersecurity attacks and sheds light on the quantity, variety, sources…
Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy notifies more than 6,500 patients after email error
Phoenix, Arizona – March 3, 2017 – Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy (“Saliba’s Pharmacy”) is notifying certain patients of the inadvertent e-mailing of December 2016 invoices, which contained patient names, addresses, account balances, and may have also included a description and dosage amount of prescription or over-the-counter medication or other pharmacy items provided by Saliba’s Pharmacy…
UK: £650 fine for former nurse who snooped in patients’ records
There’s an update to a breach first noted in July 2016. The Milford Mercury reports that the nurse, who was sacked after ‘inappropriately accessing’ more than 3,000 patient files over a two-year period, has admitted breaching the Data Protection Act. Sixty-three-year-old Elaine Lewis, from Llansteffan, appeared at Llanelli Magistrates Court today (Friday, March 3). She admitted…
Chadron Community Hospital discloses insider wrongdoing that went on for more than 5 years
Let’s start with their notice of the incident: Chadron Community Hospital and Health Services takes our obligation to protect our patients’ personal health information seriously. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On January 3, 2017, we learned that one of our staff members had accessed patient medical records outside of the employee’s job…
Allina Health notifies Minneapolis Heart Institute patients of data breach
This is not the first time we’ve seen a cleaning crew accidentally improperly dispose of patient records, but I do like Allina Health’s response to this incident to prevent recurrences. February 23 – This announcement is regarding a privacy incident that occurred at Minneapolis Heart Institute® at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, located at 800 E 28thSt., Minneapolis,…