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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
OH: ODJFS, Medicaid recipients involved in data leak
Cristen Manion areports: Hundreds of Ohioans who receive benefits from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services or Medicaid may have inadvertently had their information leaked by a computer error. According to a release, the Ohio Departments of Administrative Services, Medicaid, and Job and Family Services (ODJFS) are taking steps to address the potential…
Is a third-party incident about to fuel a health insurance fraud ring?
Despite the fact that we are constantly bombarded with reports of breaches, there are even more breaches that seem to escape media coverage. I’ve been wondering about whether something I noticed recently might be something that will be used to fuel an insurance fraud operation. My curiosity was triggered when I read a notification from…
Health data breaches due to external actors continue to predominate recently.
Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…