LCS Westminster Partnership IV, LLP d/b/a Sagewood, is reporting what they describe as a ransomware attack without any ransom demand: Sagewood, a retirement community located at 4555 E Mayo Blvd. in Phoenix, has notified 800 current and former residents and the Department of Health and Human Services of a cyber breach. Sagewood promptly investigated the…
Category: Health Data
OptumHealth New Mexico notifies 2,006 members of breach
On Nov. 17, OptumHealth New Mexico began notifying members that a flash drive, mailed by an unnamed vendor on September 16, was discovered on September 26 to have been lost in the postal mail. From their FAQ on the incident: The information contained on the flash drive included individuals’ name and a full or partial date of birth,…
AU: Two more SA Health workers sacked for spying on patient records
Brad Crouch reports: Two more SA Health staff have been sacked in the past three months for spying on patient records, bringing the total to seven people terminated in the past year. Another staff member quit prior to the allegations being substantiated and a volunteer was also terminated, while four other staff members were disciplined….
NL: Erasmus University Data Breach Exposed Students’ Medical and Financial Information
JP Buntinx reports: When Erasmus University was hacked a couple of weeks ago, it appeared that only student names, addresses, and logins were obtained. But that is only part of the real story. A total of 270,000 webforms residing on one particular web server were breached during the attack. Close to 5,000 forms contain student medical information,…
Are some patients still first finding out about Ambucor breach?
How many clients of Ambucor Health Solutions – and how many patients – have been affected by an insider wrongdoing incident at the business associate earlier this year? We still don’t know, but here’s some of what we have found out. Gee, it would be nice if we had more transparency and business associates/vendors had to…
Data manipulation heralds a new era of hacking
Here’s one of the nightmares I’ve occasionally had over the past two years: a healthcare entity gets hacked, but instead of patient data being stolen, it’s corrupted, leading to inaccurate patient medical records that result in wrong treatment or even fatal mistakes. Has it already happened? Data corruption is a risk that has always been mentioned in…