It feels like I’m seeing more phishing reports that hacking reports this past week. Ken Stone reports: Some patient information was unlawfully accessed as a result of a “phishing” attack that targeted the email accounts of several City of Hope staffers, the Duarte cancer research and treatment facility reported Friday. The data breach, which took place the…
Category: Health Data
UK: Eight patients’ records are accidentally leaked from Ayr Hospital
Stuart Wilson reports: Top secret files belonging to EIGHT strangers were shared with a woman discharged from Ayr Hospital. The confidential information – also copied to the woman’s doctor – is now at the centre of a high level investigation. NHS Ayrshire & Arran face a grilling from Scotland’s Information Commissioner. Read more on Daily…
CA: Medical records found dumped on Paradise Hills sidewalk
KGTV reports: Medical documents containing names and Social Security numbers for hundreds of patients were found dumped on a Paradise Hills sidewalk Monday morning. The records were discovered by a man on a sidewalk with some other trash in the area of Paradise Valley Road and Jester Street. The man then reported it to San Diego…
Iowa Dept. of Human Services mistakenly shared personal info on nursing home residents
Jason Clayworth reports that Iowa’s Department of Human Services mistakenly shared 425 Iowans’ information with nursing facilities. The DHS became aware of the incident on Jan. 22. The agency sent letters dated Feb. 12 to each person, noting that the agency’s Medicaid Enterprise Medical Services United had mailed roster reports to the homes and had…
21st Century Oncology Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
Update, March 8: A 21st Century Oncology spokesperson confirmed today to DataBreaches.net that 2.2 million patients were impacted by this breach. Note that this is the second time 21st Century Oncology learned of a data breach from federal authorities. In 2013, this site reported on an incident involving a rogue employee. That incident never appeared on HHS’s breach…
Nintendo Health Plan breach impacts 6,248 (Updated)
It’s all fun and games until you have to report a breach involving your health plan to HHS. Nintendo of America, Inc. notified HHS on February 26 of an incident impacting 6,248. The incident was coded as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving their Network Server, but still covers a lot of possibilities. [CORRECTION: It was not their…