It looks like HHS followed up on a leak first reported by DataBreaches.net in May, 2018. At the time, this site noted that two MedEvolve clients had exposed data. One of them was Beverly Held, M.D. A researcher had found .dat files exposed without any login required and estimated that there were approximately 12,000 SSNs…
Category: Health Data
Why Healthcare is (or isn’t) Adopting Blockchain
Matt Jordan reports: There’s a place for Blockchain in the Healthcare environment, whether individual providers are choosing to adopt it or not. With the current health crisis rocking our country, and even our world, sending patients to ICU or bed-ridden and unable to leave their homes to receive care and diagnoses from their medical professionals….
More than 200 people affected by privacy breaches at Nova Scotia Health
Jack Julian reports: Another privacy breach at Nova Scotia Health has affected more than 200 people. In a release Tuesday, the province’s health authority said they are contacting 211 people by letter whose personal health information was “inappropriately accessed” in two unrelated incidents. The breaches took place at the Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow, and…
Class action proposed for victims of Central Health privacy breach
The Telegram reports: St. John’s lawyers Bob Buckingham and Eli Baker say they will launch a class-action lawsuit in relation to a recent privacy breach by a former employee of Central Health. Last week, officials with the health authority said an employee had inappropriately accessed the health records of 240 people online over a two-year…
UK: Hospital investigating possible confidentiality breach
Emily Roberts reports: Personal details about women who have had a stillbirth appear to have mistakenly been published online by the trust which runs Basingstoke hospital. […] Three reviews were published in two different documents in June and July, providing details including the date and time of the stillbirth, the women’s age and BMI, the…
LifeLabs agrees to comply with privacy commissioners’ orders, but challenges release of investigation report
From the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, this press release below. This is the second time in the past few months where we have seen an entity really fight an order to release a forensics report on a breach. In the U.S., we saw a court order Capital One in…