Pasquale Turbide reports: Officials at Sainte-Justine Hospital are working to resolve a privacy breach after a pediatrician leaked confidential documents to a media outlet before taking his own life. According to Radio-Canada, Dr. Alain Sirard sent a USB key last December to Québécor that contained confidential documents, such as excerpts of medical files and reports…
Category: Health Data
Sentara notifies 5000+ patients after breach at vendor
WAVY reports: A cyber security breach at a third party vendor for Sentara Healthcare has compromised the records of over 5,000 patients. The incident involves 5,454 vascular and thoracic patients seen between 2012 and 2015 at Sentara hospitals in Virginia. Read more on WAVY. The vendor was not named, nor were many details about the nature of the…
UK: Trojan malware blamed for cyberattack at Barts Health NHS hospitals
Danny Palmer reports that trojan malware has been blamed for the cyberattack against Barts Health NHS Trust, which had been noted previously on this site. The Trust had disclosed that they originally suspected ransomware had infected its system, but had ruled that out. The method of infection is either still not known or they’re not…
UK: Investigation after Barts Health Trust hit by cyber attack
Mark Chandler reports that the biggest NHS trust in London has been hit by a cyberattack, but the nature of the attack is not clear. Barts Health Trust, which runs four hospitals – The Royal London, St Bartholomew’s, Whipps Cross, and Newham – report that although they initially believed it was a ransomware attack, they have ruled that…
2016: Healthcare data breaches in review, Part 1
There were a number of year-in-review analyses for the healthcare sector, but now Protenus has released its report, which is based on analyses of 450 U.S. incidents first disclosed in 2016. The incidents were compiled by DataBreaches.net, who also provided some of the analyses. While some media outlets still headline external hacks where massive numbers of records…
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group notify parents of laptop theft
On December 21, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group learned that a laptop had been stolen from a locked car of one of the physicians. The laptop, which contained minor children’s protected health information, was unencrypted. According to a notification letter dated January 13, a copy of which was…