Add yet one more business associate to those affected by the Clop attack on Progress Software MOVEiT. Nuance has disclosed that it was affected by the May attacks. Although no number was revealed, the Microsoft-owned technology firm stated it was disclosing on behalf of: Atrium Health, the Charlotte-based health care system giant. Catawba Valley Medical…
Category: Health Data
Personal information of thousands of Sanford Health patients potentially compromised
Gretchen Hjelmstad reports: The imaging vendor Sanford Health uses for its mobile heart screen trucks, DMS Health Technologies, experienced a data security incident between March 27 and April 24, 2023. According to Sanford Health, patient information was potentially compromised including name, date of birth, date of service, physician name and exam type. Sanford Health is…
Conti member indicted for role in 2021 Scripps Health ransomware attack
On September 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned 11 individuals who are alleged to be part of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed indictments against nine individuals in connection with the…
Texas Medical Liability Trust updates its data breach notification; now provides notification on behalf of almost 60,000 individuals
In March, Texas Medical Liability Trust on behalf of itself and its affiliates, Texas Medical Insurance Company, Physicians Insurance Company, and Lone Star Alliance, Inc., a Risk Retention Group (collectively “TMLT”) filed a breach notification with the Maine Attorney General’s Office. That submission indicated that 625 individuals had been affected by a breach that occurred…
Hospital Sisters Health System’s CFO exits as it continues to handle ‘cybersecurity incident’
On August 29, DataBreaches reported that Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) and Prevea Health appeared to have been the victims of a ransomware attack. As of today, the notice on Prevea Health states, “HSHS and Prevea are experiencing a systemwide outage of clinical and administrative applications.” Prevea continues to describe it as a temporary outage….
Bloom Health Centers discloses data breach involving mental health data of 1,545 patients
Updated September 13: This incident was reported to HHS as affecting 1,654 patients. On September 11, Psych Associates of Maryland LLC d/b/a Bloom Health Centers (“Bloom Health”), a mental health service provider, announced a data security incident that involved the personal and protected health information of some clinicians and patients. Before digging into the details,…