Eventus WholeHealth, PLLC (“Eventus”) provides integrated primary care and mental health services to medically vulnerable adults. In a press release issued this week, they disclose a breach involving protected health information. “On June 1, 2022, we observed suspicious activity associated with a single Eventus email account, despite multifactor authentication on the account.” Comment: That statement…
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Aesthetic Dermatology Associates notifies patients of breach, but data already leaking on dark web
If you say you are going to provide details of an incident, then DataBreaches believes that you should provide important details — like the fact that patient data has been leaked on the dark web. Here’s another incident notice where there is no mention of that. From Aesthetic Dermatology Associates‘ press release: What Happened? On…
Doctor Admits Criminal HIPAA Scheme for Wrongful Disclosure of Protected Patient Health Information to Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
CAMDEN, N.J. – A former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced. Frank Alario, 65, of Delray Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before Judge Robert B. Kugler to conspiring to wrongfully disclose patients’ individually identifiable health…
N.L. Centre for Health Information AGM sidesteps cyberattack details, doesn’t allow live questions
Rob Antle reports: The agency in charge of safeguarding health information in Newfoundland and Labrador held its first annual general meeting since last fall’s cyberattack, but there were no updates what happened or what’s since been done to protect patient data. The tightly scripted event — held on the Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend,…
Detroit Health Department Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
The following is a notice from the Detroit Health Department. It is unclear whether this was an accidental breach due to error or some more intentional wrongdoing by an employee, but the notice makes no mention of disciplining any employee or referring to law enforcement. The Detroit Health Department is notifying specific individuals about a…
Wisconsin Department of Health Services notifying some Medicaid members of breach
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) today announced that on August 8, 2022, as part of a cybersecurity incident investigation, DHS was notified that a presentation emailed to the DHS Children’s Long-Term Support Council in April 2021 contained protected health information. This presentation was forwarded to employees working for county government agencies in Rock…