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Class action lawsuit filed against Roper St. Francis Healthcare over multiple data breaches

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Dissent

Regular readers may recall that September, 2020 was not a good month for St. Roper Francis, and DataBreaches.net had to explain that the healthcare system was dealing with notifications from two unrelated breaches. One involved 6,000 patients impacted by a hack of an employee’s email account. The other involved more than 90,000 patients impacted by…

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They, too, also issued breach notices…

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Dissent

Each week, I post some articles on this site about breaches involving protected health information or medical information, but there are usually other reports that just get entered on my worksheets for analysis for Protenus. To give you a taste of how many more incidents we record but not necessarily post in a week, I…

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IE: Donnelly is accused of data breach

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Dissent

Maeve Sheehan reports: Lawyers acting for women caught up in the CervicalCheck debacle have reported Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to the Data Protection Commission. Mr Donnelly has been accused of an alleged data breach and “unauthorised” use of the women’s home addresses by writing to them directly about the CervicalCheck tribunal. Stephen Donnelly wrote to…

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How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker provides a follow-up on the scandal involving the government of Jamaica, a contractor called Amber Group, and the multiple security issues with JamCOVID. Readers may recall that at the time of Zack’s original reporting, the government and contractor downplayed the incident and a minister made thinly veiled threats directed at Zack and TechCrunch…

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Good Luck Explaining to HHS Why Your PHI is in GitHub’s Vault for the Next 1,000 Years

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Dissent

You may see a number of hospitals and covered entities issuing statements this week about a data security incident involving Med-Data (Med-Data, Incorporated). So far, Memorial Hermann, U. of Chicago, Aspirus, and OSF Healthcare have posted notices. Others should be or may be posting soon. Here’s DataBreaches.net’s exclusive report on the incident.  Another Day, Another…

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NZ: Heath board has contacted 50 people affected by software privacy breach

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Dissent

Sam Sherwood reports: About 50 people affected by a software error that allowed patients’ private information to be seen in the Covid-19 vaccination appointment booking system have been contacted by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB). The error meant the details of 714 individuals who had registered were potentially able to be viewed. The details included…

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