A business whose evidence the FTC relied upon in opening an investigation of LabMD has allegedly been raided by the FBI. It’s just the latest development in a case that has now involved the FTC, DOJ, the security of Marine One, the House Oversight Committee, and a slew of businesses who were told that their…
Category: Health Data
Follow-up: Wayne Memorial Hospital Incident
Wayne Memorial Hospital has updated its breach disclosure, reported previously on this site as involving unauthorized insider access to 360 patients’ records. On March 1, the hospital updated the situation: One month after the termination of an employee for a patient privacy breach, Wayne Memorial Hospital continues to have no information that the accessed information was…
NL: Records of 781 cancer patients stolen from hospital car park
Negligence and laziness are not uniquely American phenomena. In this case, the researcher was violating policy, with all-too-predictable results: A hard drive containing the medical records of 781 cancer patients has been stolen from a researcher at Amsterdam’s Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital. The drive, which was not secured with a password, was taken from the boot…
Wal-Mart says some pharmacy client data was visible to others online (updated)
Nathan Layne reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Wednesday that prescription history and other basic information on a few thousand online U.S. pharmacy customers may have been visible to other users during a four-day stretch last month due to a coding mistake. “We had a software coding error for a 72-hour period from February 15…
PA: FBI investigates Main Line Health Spear Phishing Incident (UPDATED)
Another day, another successful phishing scheme. In late afternoon on March 1, 2016, Main Line Health learned of a “spear phishing” incident that affected the personal information of all Main Line Health employees. Main Line Health immediately alerted federal authorities, including the IRS and FBI, regarding this incident and is cooperating with their investigation. No…
Eye Institute of Corpus Christi notifies patients of breach
Here’s yet another case where patients’ personal information and protected health information was stolen and used to solicit patients to another practice. The Eye Institute of Corpus Christi, through its external counsel, disclosed that on January 6, they learned that individuals associated with doctors formerly employed by the Eye Institute copied the patient database and provided…