Chris Vilela reports: Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has confirmed that it is currently facing an online access interruption, which a source at the hospital says is related to a possible cyber-security breach. KHSC did not immediately disclose the exact nature of the incident. “We can confirm that KHSC’s internet access and external-facing systems are…
Category: Health Data
Hospital, Patients Seek Ransomware Attack Settlement Approval
Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: Saint Francis Healthcare System and the representatives of a class of over 90,000 patients is asking a federal court to approve the final settlement of a lawsuit growing out of a 2019 ransomware attack on a computer network that disrupted medical services and exposed patient records to unlawful access. Read more…
ShopRite, Wakefern will pay $235k fine, improve security after massive data breach, AG says
Sophie Nieto-Munoz reports: ShopRite and its parent company, Wakefern Food Corporation, will pay $235,000 after two supermarkets threw away electronic devices exposing thousands of customers’ medical information, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced Monday. The company will also have to improve its data security after they failed to protect the information of more than 9,700 pharmaceutical customers…
“We take your privacy seriously,” Saturday edition
As part of my research collaboration with Protenus for their Breach Barometer reports, I spend time every week reaching out to entities to ask them for details about incidents if I cannot find any notice on their site or a state attorney general’s site. Most entities respond with the requested information or a copy of…
New Haven Health Department failed to terminate former employee’s access to protected health information
The City of New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven) has agreed to pay $202,400 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to implement a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The…
Statement from Universal Health Services
Updated Thursday, October 29, 2020, 4:30 pm ET — As previously disclosed on September 29, 2020, we experienced an information technology security incident in the early morning hours of September 27, 2020. As a result of this cyberattack, we suspended user access to our information technology applications related to operations located in the United States. While…