Melissa Cunningham reports: A Melbourne medical clinic has been inadvertently faxing highly sensitive patient details including mental health and family medical histories to a Greenvale man for at least two years. The man said he has been sporadically faxed at least 10 medical referrals for specialist consultations from the Harding Street Medical Centre in Coburg….
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WY: Gillette hospital targeted in ransomware attack
Seth Klamann reports: Campbell County Health in Gillette was targeted in a ransomware attack Friday, according to an alert the state Department of Health sent to health care providers. The attack occurred early Friday morning, at approximately 3 a.m. The hospital “experienced serious computer issues” due to the attack. This caused a “service disruption” at…
Criminal probe after data breach at Wigan hospital
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…
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…