Liam Sou Tar reports: The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh (WWL) NHS Foundation Trust has sent out letters to victims of the data breach, who number more than 2,000, explaining that personal information was viewed on multiple occasions by an employee who had no legitimate reason to access the files and were not permitted to do…
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Thousands of abandoned medical records found in deceased Indiana doctor’s abortion clinics
Christina Maxouris of CNN reports on what appears to be a horrifying medical privacy breach. First, authorities discovered a spine-chilling 2,246 fetal remains in the Illinois garage of an abortion doctor after his death. Then, investigators found “thousands” of abandoned medical records across his abortion clinics in Indiana, the Indiana attorney general announced on Friday….
Presbyterian Health business associates disclose breach
Magellan Healthcare and National Imaging Services recently notified OCR of a HIPAA breach impacting 55,637 and 589 patients, respectively. The notification was made to OCR on September 17. A press release issued by Magellan Health, Inc. for its subsidiaries, obtained by DataBreaches.net, reported that an anonymous, unauthorized third party accessed the email accounts of two…
MY: Health Ministry investigating leak of patient records
Sira Habibu reports: KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is investigating reports of a data leak involving the patient records of nearly 20,000 Malaysians. […] He was responding to the Sept 16 report by Greenbone Network report claiming that information on 19,992 radiological reports from Malaysia was freely accessible on computer servers worldwide. Read more on…
Ramsey County data breach may have affected nearly 118,000 people
Shannon Prather reports: Nearly 118,000 people who receive Ramsey County services may have had some personal or health information compromised when hackers breached the county’s e-mail system in August 2018. County officials had initially said more than 500 people were affected last winter, but officials dramatically increased that number Tuesday after hiring an outside data…
Former South Elgin nurse gets court supervision for taking sexual images stolen from Naperville patient’s phone
Clifford Ward reports: A male registered nurse from South Elgin who stole sexual photos and videos from the phone of a Naperville woman being treated for substance abuse has been sentenced to court supervision and 20 days at the DuPage County work program. Mark Luis, 36, of the 700 block of Waterside Drive, was found…