Charissa Young reports: WASHINGTON – Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the American at the centre of Singapore’s HIV registry leak, has promised to delete all information obtained from the Singapore Government in accordance with a court order granted to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The 34-year-old also swore, in a written statement filed with a US court on…
Category: Health Data
Lansing woman deals with data breach aftermath – but is it really from that breach??
WILX reports: About six months ago, a medical billing company was hacked and patients information was compromised. One Lansing woman says she’s still dealing with the aftermath. Joanne Fink says she’s getting calls from companies referencing her specific medical conditions. She believes it’s related to the data breach at Wolverine Solutions Group. Read more on…
IA: Southern Hills Eye Care Notifies Patients of Ransomware Attack
From their web site: Southern Hills Eye Care has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent exposure of patients’ personal and health information. Although at this time there is no indication that an unauthorized party accessed or viewed patient information, or evidence of patient information being misused,…
And speaking of refusals to reimburse for breaches….
I don’t have access to the full article, but Law360 is reporting that: CVS Can’t Recoup $1.8M Info Disclosure Penalty From Printer A printing company that contracted with CVS to mail benefit letters to IBM employees doesn’t have to reimburse the $1.845 million the drugstore had to dole out after letters were sent… Read it…
Ca: Sunniva reports filing of class action lawsuit regarding privacy breach
CISO Magazine reports: PRNewswire: Sunniva Inc. recently reported that it has been named in a class action lawsuit, along with its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Health Services Ltd. (“NHS”), in connection with a privacy breach of the Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) system used by NHS. Sunniva and NHS will defend this action. NHS identified that…
Proposed settlement agreement between Texas and OCR concerning a 2015 breach
The following analysis in the Texas Senate suggests that OCR and Texas have been negotiating a resolution agreement since Texas first reported this breach in June, 2015. Not only does that seem like a long time for this to be going on, but if you were to look at HHS’s public breach tool to see…