Malea Martin reports: A data breach at Atascadero State Hospital appears to be more severe than state officials initially thought, as the investigation into what happened remains ongoing. On March 18, the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) announced that an employee with access to Atascadero State Hospital data servers improperly obtained more than 1,400 patient and former patient names,…
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Administrative Advantage notifies patients of Remedy Medical Group after email hack
Remedy Medical Group is a pain management specialty practice in California. Their web site indicates that they are consultants to some professional sports teams in their area. Did a breach involving some of their patients’ data also impact any prominent athletes who might receive extortion demands? At this point, there is no indication of any…
UPDATE: Trillium Health IT specialist pleads guilty to stealing personal info from colleagues’ computers
Some days, I see a name in my news feed and think, “Oh, I know about that breach already.” But then I doublecheck, only to learn that no, this was not the breach I had covered a week or so ago, but yet another breach involving the same name or a similar name. Such is…
Class action lawsuit filed against Roper St. Francis Healthcare over multiple data breaches
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…
They, too, also issued breach notices…
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…
IE: Donnelly is accused of data breach
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…