John Parmer and Paul Schlesinger report: Officers and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested three people Wednesday after raiding a Coalinga home that contained hundreds of patient records and prescription opioids stolen from an area doctor’s office, according to the Coalinga Police Department. […] While they were processing and booking evidence at the Police Department,…
Category: Health Data
Medical Device Maker Faces California Privacy Suit After Breach
And once again, people rush to file potential class action lawsuits following a breach. It has been less than one month since Tandem Diabetes Care notified patients of a phishing incident that may have compromised personal and protected health information. But now one of those notified has filed a complaint in federal court, alleging, among…
Czechs Warn Hackers Are Preparing Cyber Attacks on Hospitals
Lenka Ponikelska reports: A campaign of serious hacker attacks on Czech hospitals is highly probable in the coming days, the country’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency said. The warning follows an attack last month at the Faculty Hospital in the second-largest Czech city of Brno, where officials were forced to evacuate patients. The threat…
PA: Meadville Medical Center still not fully recovered from malware attack in March
On January 30, the Meadville Tribune reported that Meadville Medical Center was investigating what appeared to be an attack on the employee payroll system. No patient data was believed to have been impacted. On March 26, however, and only days after furloughing hundreds of employees due to the decreased volume of patients coming to the…
MD: Doctors Community Medical Center notifies patients after phishing incident put patient info at risk
Doctors Community Medical Center in Maryland is notifying an unreported number of patients whose protected health information was potentially compromised by a phishing incident. In January, the center noticed unusual network activity in its payroll system. Their investigation revealed that a number of employees had fallen for a phishing attack and that the attacker(s) had…
Saint Francis Ministries Will Be Notifying Patients of Breach
Saint Francis Ministries issued a press release on Friday. It states, in relevant part: On December 19, 2019, Saint Francis became aware of suspicious activity relating to one of its employee’s email accounts. Saint Francis took steps to secure the email account and began working with outside computer forensics specialists to determine the nature and scope of the activity. On February…