Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The U.S. Department of Defense has been hit with a $4.9 billion lawsuit over a recently disclosed data breach involving TRICARE, a healthcare system for active and retired military personnel and their families. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C. this week by four people whose data was allegedly compromised, seeks…
Category: Health Data
IM: Memory stick with private details of mental health patients is lost
A memory stick containing confidential information on people with learning disabilities and with mental illness has been lost. Although the memory stick was lost in August, the news has only been revealed today by the Department of Social Care. It was lost by an employee of Praxis Care Isle of Man which ‘provides a range…
Palm Pilot stolen from surgeon's car contained patient information
Another incident added this week to HHS’s breach tool was reported by Jonathan Noel, M.D. of Indiana. I could not find a web site or media coverage for the incident, but did find a substitute/public notice had been published about the breach in Paoli New Republican. The full notice is not available without subscription and login,…
3,116 NEA Baptist Clinic patients notified after web site hacked
Listed in the most recent batch of updates to HHS’s breach tool was an entry for NEA Baptist Clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas. A statement on the clinic’s web site, which I found through a Google search and not via a link from their home page, says: NEA Baptist Clinic’s former public website was compromised by…
Update: Lawsuit against Keystone and Amerihealth remanded to state court
Via Courthouse News, a potential class action lawsuit against Keystone Mercy Health Plan and Amerihealth Mercy Health Plan over a data breach last year has been sent back to state court – over the arguments of the insurers being sued.
AssureCare breach in May also affected Gypsum Management and Supply employees
Newly revealed on HHS’s breach tool: Gypsum Management and Supply, Inc. had 25,330 employees enrolled in their healthcare and dental plan who were affected by the AssureCare hacking incident in May.