On February 11, Kentucky Counseling Center notified HHS of a breach impacting 16,440 patients. Using HHS’s coding system to report, the incident was reported as a case of unauthorized access/disclosure involving EMR. But on their site, KCC makes clear that they suspect a former employee of taking a list of patient information. The full notification…
Category: U.S.
UW Medicine notifying 974,000 patients whose information was exposed online in December
The University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine) is notifying patients after an error exposed protected health information of 974,000 patients online for three weeks in December. UW Medicine includes the University’s medical school as well as Harborview Medical Center, the UW Medical Center, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and more than two-dozen…
Centinela Valley Union High School District notifies employees of W-2 phishing incident
Ding! Ding! Ding! I think we have our first W-2 phishing report of this year, although of course I may have missed other ones. This one involves the Centinela Valley Union High School District in California. From their notification to the state: As a follow up to the email sent to you on January 31, 2019,…
PA: Malware breach strikes Chester County computers
Michael P. Rellahan reports: A breach of Chester County government’s computer system via an internet bug led to intense work by county computer specialists over the Presidents Day weekend, but apparently has not led to any compromise of users’ information, a county spokesperson said Tuesday. Chester County’s Department of Computing and Information Services (DCIS) detected…
Personal info exposed after State of Ohio sends wrong tax forms to 9,000 people
Sarah Wynn reports: The Ohio Department of Commerce says thousands of letters were sent by the state to those who qualify for unclaimed funds, but the letters were sent to the wrong people. The letters include personal information, including names and social security numbers, according to the state. “Due to a processing error, approximately 9,000…
TN: Ex-Rhodes College student pleads guilty to hacking into system, changing his grades
Linda A. Moore reports: A former Rhodes College student pleaded guilty Tuesday to hacking into the college’s computer system to change his grades and keep his scholarship. Michael Geddati, 20, was a freshman pre-med major when between December 2017 and May 2018, he accessed various systems without authorization to raise his grades. Geddati’s actions were detected after a faculty…