Sue Sterling reports: Warrensburg – About 6,200 accounts at Western Missouri Medical Center were turned over to a collection agency due to a glitch in the computer changeover, interim President/CEO Darinda Reberry said. Reberry said the glitch occurred among patients who had several accounts that the new computer system did not link. She said patients…
Category: Exposure
uKnowKids database exposed personal and location info of 1,740 kids (Update1)
A misconfigured database from a child tracking & monitoring firm exposed over 6.8 million private child text messages, 1.8 million images (many depicting children), and over 1700 in-depth child profiles. uKnowKids monitoring software advertises that it “Makes Parenting Easier, and Keeps Kids Safe Online and on the Mobile Phone.” On its web site, it claims that it has helped parents protect…
‘Hacktivist’ group ‘Anonymous’ threatens Cincinnati Police Department with release of officer information (UPDATED)
WCPO reports: The hacker group “Anonymous” announced it is taking aim at the Cincinnati Police Department in a video posted on YouTube Sunday. In the video, a masked man at a podium threatens to release the personal information of Cincinnati police officers involved in the shooting of Paul Gaston last week. Read more on WCPO. Update: Anon Verdict…
Update on Community Mercy Health Partners breach
Ben Sutherly reports a follow-up on the Community Mercy Health Partners breach reported previously on this blog. Sutherly reports that the actual number of patients potentially affected was far less than the 113,000 reported to HHS because of duplication. And as a result of the breach, Community Mercy no longer contracts with the vendor, he said. The vendor…
Los Angeles physical therapy provider settles HHS charges that it impermissibly disclosed patient information
An announcement by HHS on Feb. 16 seems to have flown under most media radar. It seems that Complete P.T. used patient images and testimonials on their web site without patient consent, generating a complaint to HHS that HHS investigated and confirmed. Complete P.T. has admitted liability, agreed to pay $25,000, and has agreed to a…
ORCID Security Incident
ORCID describes itself as an “open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.” The following notice was…