The Johnstown County Report reports: A former employee at a Selma animal hospital has been charged with extortion and cyberstalking. Eduardo Figueroa, age 40, of S. Sussex Drive, Smithfield was arrested December 14 at his residence by Smithfield Police. Stolen medical records from the animal hospital were also recovered at his home, police said. On…
Category: Health Data
Oregon AG Rosenblum Settles with Avalon Healthcare over 2019 Data Breach
Although HHS OCR generally fails to take a hard enforcement line with reporting breaches by the “no later than 60 day” rule in HIPAA, state attorneys general may enforce even stricter deadlines. Read this press release: December 27 — Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announced they’ve settled a data breach enforcement case…
A hospital’s patient data was stolen in June and they should have known it. Why are they claiming they didn’t know?
Six months after DataBreaches reported that Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri had been the victim of a ransomware attack by Daixin Team, the hospital has finally disclosed the incident. In a notification, the hospital claims that they detected the unauthorized access on June 6. But then they immediately make a demonstrably false statement. They state, “Though…
Retreat Behavioral Health addiction treatment centers hit by ransomware earlier this year
Retreat Behavioral Health (RBH) has addiction treatment facilities in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. On July 1, 2022, they reportedly detected a ransomware attack. Letters were sent out this week, but because Massachusetts actually prohibits entities from providing important details in notifications to consumers, there’s a lot we don’t know about this incident yet. Specifically, the…
NC: Monarch notifies HHS of breach, but where are the details and notice?
On September 1, a listing on a dark web site by a group calling themselves Don#t_Leaks named MonarchNC as a victim. The listing did not appear for long. The only “proof” offered at the time was a filetree and a screencap of what might be an index of an inbox showing monarchnc.org domain in email…
Are Data Breach Class Action Lawsuits Protecting Patients?
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: The prospect of class action lawsuits being filed in the aftermath of a major data breach often has more impact on breached healthcare organizations than the potential for fines and enforcement actions by government regulators, says attorney Jeff Westerman of Westerman Law Corp. With all the legal expenses and time involved…