Updated June 1: External counsel for the hospital notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that this incident resulted in notifications to 42,336 people and that those affected were offered two years of Experian credit and identity monitoring services. Updated June 3: It seems that on May 28, they notified HHS that they notified 57,379, so…
Category: Health Data
UMD-Baltimore updates Accellion breach notification after finding PII and PHI involved
On April 1, DataBreaches.net reported that the University of Maryland, Baltimore was one of the educational entities impacted by the CLOP hack and exfiltration of Accellion client data, but that neither UMD nor Accellion even knew that until the last week in March. This week, the university issued an updated press release that reveals that…
Hoboken Radiology reveals breach of imaging server that began in 2019
Hoboken Radiology LLC in New Jersey issued a press release yesterday about an incident that began in June, 2019. The full text of the release is below the separator. DataBreaches.net has sent an inquiry to the practice asking them who informed them in November — was it law enforcement, a vendor, a researcher, or their…
Caravus impacted by Netgain Technology breach because vendor failure to destroy legacy data
I’ve continued to add updates to a post about the Netgain Technology breach. Keep in mind that the ransomware incident occurred in November, 2020, and since January, we have seen entities disclosing the incident. But one disclosure today is somewhat frustrating to read — and not just for the delay in notification, but for the…
NZ: New Zealand, hacker attack: Zeppelin ransomware blocks patient care at Waikato DHB
Marco A. De Felice writes: More than a week after the May 18 cyber attack, the computer systems of the Waikato District Health Board (Waikato DHB) have not yet been restored. Some scheduled surgeries in DHB’s five hospitals have been postponed, while non-urgent cases are postponed until all IT systems are back in operation. From…
Having your ePHI dumped on the dark web by threat actors doesn’t necessarily give you standing to sue
In May, 2020, Assured Imaging in Arizona experienced a ransomware attack that they revealed in August, 2020.The incident reportedly impacted 244,813 patients. The data dump by the Pysa threat actors contained a lot of ePHI that appeared to be mostly mammography pre-screening histories or forms with data types such as medical record number, names, addresses,…