Nicholas Pointon reports: A dental company with 120 practices nationwide is confident a data breach at a Wellington surgery was an isolated incident. Wellington Oral Surgery, which is owned by Lumino, discovered on Monday a staff member’s email account had been hacked and patients’ personal information had been accessed. The company sent out a notice…
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AU: Eastern Health cyber ‘incident’ cancels some surgeries across Melbourne
Asha Barbaschowre Some surgeries have been cancelled at Eastern Health facilities in Victoria, following a “cyber incident” experienced late Tuesday. Eastern Health operates the Angliss, Box Hill, Healesville, and Maroondah hospitals, and has many more facilities under management. In a statement, Eastern Health said it took many of its systems offline in response to the…
Hackers hacked into the system of three Prague polyclinics, e-mails and ordering system do not work
The following is a translation: The mentioned three polyclinics fall under the company Poliklinika IPP . “It is true, but I do not want to comment on it. The whole event is now being investigated and I do not want to endanger what is happening around, “confirmed the attack by Lenka Šmídová, executive of the IPP Polyclinic. Whether the perpetrators demanded money,…
Arizona Complete Health notifies plan members of Accellion breach
On February 26, Arizona Complete Health notified plan members of the Accellion breach. According to the notification (see below), the threat actors (who have since self-identified as CLOP) were able to “view or save” member information between January 7 and January 25, 2021. The types of ePHI involved included insured members’ name and one or…
Playing ‘Price is Right’-style game, GR doctors post operating room photos online
Susan Samples reports: Spectrum Health says it has launched an investigation after a group of doctors posted to Instagram photos taken in the operating room that show an organ from one patient and fibroid tissue from another. One picture showed a doctor posing with a length of fibrous tissue in his hand. It appeared the…
Assessing Damages in Data Privacy and Data Breach Class Actions Involving Health Data in the Wake of COVID-19
Vildan Altuglu, Maria Salgado, Omur Celmanbet, Rezwan Haque, and Lucia Yanguas of Cornerstone Research write: The COVID-19 pandemic, which has generated a surge in telehealth and introduced the concept of contact tracing into our daily lives, is likely to expose businesses and governments to an increased risk of data privacy and data breach class actions…