March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Personal Touch Holding Corp. (PTHC) announced it is addressing a data breach it discovered on January 27, 2021. PTHC is the parent company of subsidiaries that operate Medicare-certified home health agencies, licensed home care service agencies, hospice at home services and Early Intervention Programs, as well as a managed care plan…
Category: Health Data
SalusCare sues Amazon to compel production of information about storage bucket used by cyberattacker
NBC2 in Florida reports that SalusCare, a substance abuse and mental health services provider, has disclosed an attack impacting both patient and employee data. According to the news station, SalusCare is not yet certain as to how the attackers gained access, and there is no notice on the entity’s web site as of the time…
MI: Mott Community College addresses data security breach
Winter Keefer reports: Mott Community College announced Wednesday that it has identified and addressed a data security breach. Through an investigation, Mott Community College determined that an unauthorized person obtained access to its systems between November 27 and January 9, and transferred files maintained on one of its systems outside of its network. The college…
TX: Novus Hospice CEO Pleads Guilty to Healthcare Fraud
March 19 – The CEO of a local hospice agency has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and Medicaid, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. Bradley J. Harris, the 39-year-old former head of Novus and Optimum Health Services, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare…
Haven Behavioral Hospital provides Notice of Data Incident
Note: The following notice concerns Haven Behavioral Hospital of Philadelphia and Haven Behavioral Hospital of Eastern Pennsylvania. DataBreaches.net also found that Cottonwood Creek Behavioral Hospital, Phoenix, Frisco (Texas), and Dayton (Ohio) Haven hospitals all published identical notices yesterday. A notice on Haven Behavioral’s web site is not specific to any named hospitals, suggesting that this incident may…
Heart of Texas Community Health Center notifies some patients of email-related breach
Public Notice – HIPAA Security Breach – Heart of Texas Community Health Center (formerly “Family Health Center”) PUBLIC NOTICE NOTE: This information is only for female patients of Heart of Texas Community Health Center (formerly “Family Health Center” and hereinafter “Heart of Texas Community Health Center”) who are between the ages of 21and 65 and…