Attorney Matt Fisher writes: Notice of a new data breach is posted at least once a day. A frequent feature of many notices is the disclosure that the conduct giving rise to the breach happened months earlier, with the delay sometimes going into years in some instances. The notices typically do not provide much insight…
Category: Breach Incidents
Questcare Medical Services notifies North Texas patients of data security breach
Here’s a breach description that sounds a lot like the one I just posted from Dakota County, MN. Questcare Medical Services announced Friday that it is addressing a security incident that involved the personal information of patients in the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington area. Questcare said in a statement that it has begun an internal investigation, notified…
MN: Dakota County Notifies 1,000 Clients After Employee Email Account Hacked
HASTINGS, Minn., April 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ –Dakota County has become aware of a data security incident that involved protected health information maintained by the Dakota County Social Services Department. Dakota County has sent notification letters to the potentially impacted individuals to notify them of this incident and to provide resources to assist them. On February…
Patients at an Ohio rehab hospital were notified of breach. Was that breach part of a coordinated attack on Ernest Health hospitals?
Lauren Lindstrom reports: An undisclosed number of patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Northwest Ohio had their personal data compromised after “unauthorized access” to employee email accounts in October, hospital officials said. Patient data, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, dates of birth, and health insurance and patient care information, was contained in…
FL: Clearway Pain Solutions Institute notifies patients after EMR hack was discovered
Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, LLC d/b/a Clearway Pain Solutions Institute, recently notified patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed without authorization. Their investigation revealed that the third party accessed patients’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, insurance information, name of referring provider, and…
Petrobangla website hacked again (updated)
So this does not inspire confidence. Md. Saidun Nabi of the Dhaka Tribune reports: Just seven and a half hours after it had been restored, the official website of the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) was hacked again at 5pm on Monday. Earlier, the website (www.petrobangla.org.bd) was hacked at 5pm on Sunday, before…