Updated 3/6/2021: Sandhills reported this incident to Maine as impacting 39,602 patients, total. Original Post: Sandhills Medical Foundation has posted a notice of a data security incident on their web site, reproduced below. Based on the dates and description, it appears that this is the Netgain Technology LLC data breach that has previously been noted…
Category: Health Data
Idaho man charged with hacking into the computers of the City of Newnan and metro-Atlanta medical clinics
It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
CA: St. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. Alphonsus
Donald A. Promnitz reports: Saint Agnes Medical Center has experienced a cybersecurity incident that originated with a sister hospital in the Pacific Northwest. According to a media release from Saint Agnes, an employee of Oregon/Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Health System had their email compromised by an unauthorized user. This individual used the employee’s account to send…
Woodcreek Provider Services notifies more than 210,000 patients of Netgain Technology ransomware incident
Back in January, this site noted that a ransomware attack on Netgain Technology LLC had impacted Ramsey County. Previous coverage of the Netgain Technology attack had reported that Netgain had stated that they were victims of a ransomware attack on November 24th, 2020 and On December 4th, customers began receiving emails from Netgain stating that…
TX: Elara Caring notifies more than 100,000 patients after corporate email accounts hacked
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…
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…