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…
Category: Health Data
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…
Threat actors leak files with protected health information from U. Miami
In December and January, threat actors successfully exploited multiple vulnerabilities in an older file transfer system by Accellion. A number of Accellion’s clients subsequently found themselves on the receiving end of extortion demands to either pay the threat actors, or have their data dumped publicly. A number of firms apparently refused to pay, and their…
Eyemart Express notifies patients of breach
Eyemart Express posted a notice of breach in local media: Farmers Branch, Texas, March 21, 2021 — Eyemart Express, LLC has discovered it was targeted by a cyber attack that affected certain Eyemart Express email accounts. Importantly, the attack did not affect Eyemart Express’ internal systems that store medical or billing records. Once the incident…