Ben Cooper reports: A nurse who accessed confidential medical records including those of people she met online dating has been allowed to continue working by a disciplinary panel. Helen Kirkpatrick, a former paediatric nurse in Nottingham, accessed 28 different patient medical records without clinical reasons for doing so over a period of 16 months between…
Category: Health Data
An insurtech startup exposed thousands of sensitive insurance applications
Zack Whittaker reports: A security lapse at insurance technology startup BackNine exposed hundreds of thousands of insurance applications after one of its cloud servers was left unprotected on the internet. BackNine might be a company you’re not familiar with, but it might have processed your personal information if you applied for insurance in the past…
Cancer patient to sue Cork’s Mercy Hospital over HSE ransomware incident
Sean O’Riordan and Shauna Bowers report: One of the first legal cases over the release of sensitive medical information on the dark web as part of the HSE cyber hack has been lodged at Cork Circuit Court. The case was lodged on Monday against Mercy University Hospital (MUH) by a Cork solicitor acting on behalf…
ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans
Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office reveals that beginning on March 8, there was unauthorized access to some employee email…
Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying it will defend itself vigorously. Marty Stempniak reports: Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself against a recently proposed…
Update on The Woodruff Institute ransomware incident
On June 20, DataBreaches.net reported that The Woodruff Institute in Florida had been attacked by “Grief” threat actors. At that time, the threat actors had dumped some files concerning business operations from the multi-location plastic surgery and dermatology practice, but other than about 50 laboratory test result reports for patients, there was not a tremendous number…