Elara Caring, a provider of home-based care, suffered a data security breach that they learned about in mid-December. Last month, they started notifying more than 100,400 patients. A notice on their web site explains that a number of corporate email accounts had been compromised — accounts that contained both employee and patient information. Elara Caring…
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Southern Illinois University School of Medicine impacted by Accellion breach, notifies patients
It appears that SIU was impacted by the Accellion breach that has been in the news a lot this past month. SIU is the first entity, however, to disclose that the incident impacted protected health information (PHI), although as DataBreaches.net reported, this site found what might be PHI in Jones Day’s dumped data. SIU does…
TX: ProPath Notifies Patients of Data Security Incident
ProPath Services, LLC in Texas has notified patients of a data security breach stemming from compromise of two employees’ email accounts. The incident occurred in 2020, but ProPath doesn’t state exactly when they first discovered the breach. In a statement on their web site, the pathology service provider explains that on January 28, they learned…
NC: FBI investigating 8-day cyber attack after ransomware attack on Allergy Partners
John Le reports: Federal authorities are investigating the ransomware attack that caused a network outage at Allergy Partners locations in the mountains. The attack happened on Feb. 23 and continued for eight days as hackers wanted a king’s ransom of $1.75 million, according to a report filed with Asheville Police Department. Meanwhile, the staff was…
Petersburg Medical Center talks about breach; says hospital will get new health records system
Angela Denning reports that Petersburg Medical Center has come out with more information about a medical records breach. They say about 200 patients were affected. The medical center sent out letters to all patients whose medical records may have been viewed by this employee. So, how did they find out about it in the first…
Ransomware attacks of two more medical entities disclosed: one in U.S., one in Canada
It seems that every day, we learn of more ransomware attacks on healthcare entities. Here are two more. Arizona: Cochise Eye and Laser The most recent update to HHS’s public breach tool included an incident reported by RF Eye, P.C., dba Cochise Eye and Laser. On February 17, the Arizona entity posted a notice on…