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Another business associate breach, another gap to notification of patients

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Dissent

So here’s yet another breach with what seems like a long delay to notification. In this case, Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage in Massachusetts, is a business associate to healthcare providers. On August 23, 2018,  an employee’s laptop was stolen. In its disclosure letter, the laptop was described as “password-protected,” but there was…

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Hundreds of immigrant recruits risk ‘death sentence’ after Army bungles data, lawmaker says

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Dissent

Today’s reminder that some “human error” breaches can put lives at risk. Alex Horton reports: Army officials inadvertently disclosed sensitive information about hundreds of immigrant recruits from nations such as China and Russia, in a breach that could aid hostile governments in persecuting them or their families, a lawmaker and former U.S. officials said. A…

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MA: Release of employees’ partial Social Security numbers troubles Worcester teachers, School Committee members

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Dissent

Scott O’Connell reports: Teachers and School Committee members are looking for answers from the School Department in the wake of the district’s release of personal information for thousands of school employees to a testing company last year. According to Worcester Superintendent Maureen Binienda, the district’s IT department opted to use the last four digits of…

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MA: Emerson Hospital reports data breach

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Dissent

Robert Mills reports, in relevant part: Emerson Hospital is offering a two-year membership to an identity protection service to 6,300 patients whose personal information was part of a data breach caused by a third-party vendor last year. In a statement released Friday, the hospital said the data breach occurred between May 9 and May 17…

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Oklahoma Heart Hospital notifies patients after thieves steal computers from clinic

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Dissent

KFOR-TV and K. Querry report that Oklahoma Heart Hospital is notifying 1,221 patients following a January burglary that resulted in the theft of four desktop computers from an outpatient clinic. The computers reportedly contained patient information like names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and clinical information. Read more on KFOR-TV. NewsOfToday has additional details…

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Rural Jackson County, Ga., recovering from Ryuk ransomware attack after paying $400,000 ransom

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Dissent

On March 6, Benjamin Freed reported: Computer systems in rural Jackson County, Georgia, were knocked offline over the weekend after being hit with a ransomware virus. The entire county government’s email system is offline, and some departments, including law enforcement, have had to resort to conducting their operations entirely on paper. “Everything we have is…

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