Look at the timeline. Was this a ransomware incident that encrypted data and made it more difficult to investigate? Why did it take so long from some of these benchmarks to notification? AUBURN, Ind., Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On May 16, 2021, Dr. Douglas C. Morrow, OD (“Dr. Morrow”) experienced a data security incident that prevented users from accessing…
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North Shore University Hospital notifies 7,614 patients of unauthorized access to personal information
The following is not a new incident. It is just a newly disclosed incident because of a law enforcement-requested delay in disclosure. North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) issued a notice on February 1, 2022 concerning insider-wrongdoing. The notice begins: NSUH learned that a former employee who worked at a medical office may have improperly accessed…
MT: Logan Health Medical Center notifying 213,554 about data breach
Logan Health Medical Center in Montana is notifying 213, 543 patients, employees, and business associates after discovering that files with personal and protected health information were accessed without authorization. According to a notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, Logan first detected suspicious network behavior on November 22, 2021. On January 5, their investigation…
Boston law firm Taylor, Ganson & Perrin notifies clients of data breach
One month after first detecting a problem, Boston law firm Taylor, Ganson & Perrin LLP is providing notice of a data security breach. Like many law firms who have experienced breaches, clients’ medical information and what might be protected health information may have been accessed or acquired by the unnamed threat actor(s), but whether it…
One year later, Minimally Invasive Surgery of Hawaii notifies patients of ransomware incident
A notification letter template that showed up on the California Attorney General’s site this week is dated “February 19, 2021.” I assume the 2021 is a typo based on the rest of the letter. The letter from Orthopedic Associates of Hawaii (OAH) begins (emphasis added by this site): Orthopedic Associates of Hawaii, All Access Ortho…
Sg: Ex-deputy lead of MOH data unit jailed for leaking daily Covid-19 case numbers in 2020
Low Youjin reports from Singapore: Despite having signed an undertaking to safeguard official information, a former deputy lead from a data management unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) chose to leak classified Covid-19 information to members of a chat group on multiple occasions before it was officially announced to the public. Zhao Zheng’s attitude towards…