Lawrence General Hospital in Massachusetts is notifying patients of a breach that occurred in September. In their disclosure, LGH notes that on September 19, they discovered a “data security incident that disrupted the operations of our IT systems.” Their investigation determined that an unauthorized party “may have accessed its IT systems between September 9, 2020…
Category: Breach Incidents
“We take your privacy seriously,” Saturday edition
As part of my research collaboration with Protenus for their Breach Barometer reports, I spend time every week reaching out to entities to ask them for details about incidents if I cannot find any notice on their site or a state attorney general’s site. Most entities respond with the requested information or a copy of…
Statement from Universal Health Services
Updated Thursday, October 29, 2020, 4:30 pm ET — As previously disclosed on September 29, 2020, we experienced an information technology security incident in the early morning hours of September 27, 2020. As a result of this cyberattack, we suspended user access to our information technology applications related to operations located in the United States. While…
Data breach involving personal information reported at Rady Children’s Hospital
Dillon Davis reports Rady Children’s Hospital has disclosed that some patient data was impacted by the Blackbaud ransomware incident earlier this year: Those files contained personal information including names, addresses, physicians, department of service, procedure name and date of births, the hospital said. Read more on FOX5. The hospital did not disclose the number of…
Dozens of patient records dumped in St. Louis industrial area
Erin Richey reports that someone found boxes of patient records belonging to DaVita Florissant Dialysis on West Florissant Avenue. “Found names, Social Security numbers, addresses, lab reports, entire medical history of people and personal information,” he said. “ Read more on KSDK. According to the report, because Missouri does not regulate dialysis clinics, the state department…
College Community School District notifies parents of Medicaid billing service breach
DataBreaches.net has previously noted a breach involving a Medicaid billing service that school districts use. Timberline Billing Service, LLC has not responded to this site’s inquiries (yet). Today, this site also reached out to College Community School District, one of the almost 200 Iowa school district that use Timberline. No reply has been received from…