CAUTION: This post contains some images showing adults with bruises or injuries. The images may be upsetting or disturbing. In October 2023, DataBreaches was contacted by a moderator for BreachForums. He had come across an exposed database and seeing how sensitive it was, contacted this site to see if we could alert those responsible for…
Read Change Healthcare’s Substitute Notice. Individual notices will go out at the end of July, but they may not have your address to notify you individually. Chad Van Alstin writes: Multiple state attorney generals have sent notices, informing residents about the Change Healthcare breach and urging them to enroll in the credit monitoring and identity…
Vivienne Gulla reports: The records of around 42 million individuals are possibly affected by the 2023 data breach on Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), according to the National Privacy Commission (NPC). NPC’s Maria Theresita Patula issued the statement during Monday’s oversight hearing of the House Committee on Appropriations regarding the budget of PhilHealth and the…
Read the following story seen on Business Standard and then tell me what word you would use to describe your reaction. The administration of King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, a civic-run facility, has issued show-cause notices to six staff members following the circulation of a video showing paper plates made from folders of patients’ reports….
As an update to the Florida Department of Health ransomware attack reported yesterday: On July 2, threat actors known as Ransom Hub had claimed to have exfiltrated 100 GB of files from the state agency. They threatened to leak it if the state did not pay their demands, but Florida law prohibits state agencies from…
On August 17, 2023, SouthCoast Medical Group (Southcoast Health) in Georgia notified HHS of a breach and posted a preliminary substitute notice on its website. At the time, they reported to HHS that 501 patients were affected, a marker for when an entity doesn’t yet know the actual number but knows it will be more…