Logan Ramsey provides an update on a previously noted ransomware attack: An area hospital has been working for over a month now to resolve a cyberattack and progress is being made. Mountain View Hospital has managed to restore clinical functions for itself, Idaho Falls Community Hospital and its partner clinics. The IT team and other…
Category: Health Data
Henrietta Johnson Medical Center patients affected by breach at Delaware Health Net
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: DataBreaches has been contacted by a spokesperson for Delaware Health Information Network who says that they were not the party responsible for this breach and this site should not have linked to them and should have linked to Delaware Health Net if they were the responsible party. DataBreaches checked the medical center’s…
More than a million NHS patients’ details compromised after cyber attack
Rebecca Thomas reports: NHS details of more than a million patients have been compromised in a cyber attack, senior health chiefs have been warned. A recent ransomware attack on the University of Manchester affected an NHS patient data set which holds information on 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals, leaks to The Independent have confirmed. Among the details potentially exposed…
Barrow County notifies people of a breach that began more than a year ago
Barrow County in Georgia issued a breach notice about a breach of its email environment that occurred between March and August of 2022. Its notification, posted on its website, states, in part: The type of information at issue varied for each individual, but included a variation of the following: name; date of birth, Social Security…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Investigation with iHealth Solutions Regarding Disclosure of Protected Health Information on an Unsecured Server for $75,000
HHS has announced another Security Rule enforcement action. This one involves iHealth Solutions (dba Advantum Health), a business associate. The incident involved an unsecured server where protected health information of patients was exfiltrated. The iHealth incident had been discovered by Kromtech Security and was first reported by DataBreaches on May 9, 2017. On May 10,…
Four senior residences in Pennsylvania disclose a data security breach in April
Four senior residences have disclosed that they were the victims of a network intrusion in April that may have compromised residents’ personal and protected health information. Senior Choice, Inc., dba The Atrium in Johnstown, Beacon Ridge in Indiana, and The Patriot in Somerset reported an incident that occurred between April 18 and April 23. The…