Gulf Coast Pain Consultants, LLC d/b/a Clearway Pain Solutions Institute, recently notified patients after discovering on February 20 that their EMR system had been accessed without authorization. Their investigation revealed that the third party accessed patients’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, insurance information, name of referring provider, and…
Category: Health Data
Two newly revealed phishing attacks in 2018 potentially compromised 41,000 patients’ ePHI
Every time I think I’m ready to total out the March data on health data attacks or incidents, another incident pops up belatedly on HHS’s site. This time, there were two reports that I had to add yesterday. One was a report from Palmetto Health in South Carolina (now part of Prisma). Palmetto reported that…
Hacker breached Minnesota state agency e-mail, placing data of 11,000 at risk
Chris Serres reports: A data breach last year at the state agency that oversees Minnesota’s health and welfare programs may have exposed the personal information of approximately 11,000 individuals. The state Department of Human Services (DHS) notified lawmakers Tuesday that an employee’s e-mail account was compromised as a result of a cyberattack on or about…
Saratov: medical documents with personal data of patients found at landfill
Saw this item on CrimeRussia under High Profile Cases. I’m not sure why they call this a high profile case, but it seems like sensitive info is sensitive info no matter what country you live in, and having papers with medical info floating around is just not acceptable in Russia, either. The Regional Prosecutor’s Office…
MA: Baystate Health suffers data breach affecting 12,000 patients
AP reports: A Massachusetts hospital says a data breach exposed information about some 12,000 patients. Baystate Health of Springfield said Monday that a phishing incident resulted in unauthorized access to the email accounts of several employees between Feb. 7 and March 7. The hospital says the accounts included patient names and dates of birth, certain…
TX: Weslaco hospital: patient data potentially compromised
Weslaco Regional Rehabilitation Hospital is notifying patients their information may have been compromised, according to a news release the hospital sent Monday. The hospital’s investigation, which included a third-party forensic firm, found that some employees’ email accounts were compromised in October 2018, the news release stated. Some emails included patient data, including names, dates of…