The HHS Cybersecurity Program has issued a new brief this week: Log4J Vulnerabilities and the Health Sector You can access it at https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/log4j-vulnerabilities-health-sector.pdf
Category: Health Data
NYU Langone notified 1,123 patients of privacy issue due to mailing vendor error
NYU Langone Health notified patients the week of January 4, 2022, about a potential privacy incident resulting in misdirected, limited patient information. The incident occurred on or about November 12, 2021, when a communication was sent via U.S. mail to inform patients of a planned relocation of an NYU Langone Health oncology surgeon originally based…
GA: Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic reports breach to HHS
It appears that Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic in Georgia reported a breach to HHS on January 3 that impacted 53,686 patients. They reported the breach as “hacking — other.” There is nothing on their website at this time to explain the incident and so far, I have found no press release. The only additional information at…
Two covered entities who discovered breaches last summer first notifying patients
Two breaches that were first reported to HHS in November have now been more fully disclosed. Both of the following breaches were first reported to HHS in November as impacting 500 or 501 patients — entries that this site usually suspects are just “markers” for “we have no idea yet how many were impacted.” Anne…
Thousands of Indians’ Covid-19 related data leaked online (Updated to include NHA’s denial that it came from Co-WIN)
PTI reports: Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be now be accessed through an online search. The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber…
A data breach that put 688,000 patients at risk just became … even worse
Q: What’s worse than a really bad data breach involving patient and employee data? A: A really bad data breach where the data gets leaked on the internet for everyone to grab for free. In June 2021, DataBreaches.net reached out to Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Washington to alert them to what appeared to…