On February 18, 2019, Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane reported a breach an incident to HHS. The incident, which appears on HHS’s public breach tool as a Hacking/IT Incident involving information on their network server, reportedly affected 400,000 patients. That’s a large breach for the healthcare sector, and yet I’ve seen no press releases in…
Category: Health Data
Rush University notifies 45,000 patients after discovering insider wrongdoing at claims processing vendor
Last month, Rush University Hospital notified HHS of a breach that they reportedly discovered in December. The breach, affecting 908 patients, was coded as an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure incident with data located in paper/film format. At the time, Becker’s Spine Review reported that the incident was a mailing mix-up: According to the letter sent to affected patients,…
More than 5 months after ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group still notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients
More than 5 months after a ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group is still in the process of notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. Should they even have to, or has the government imposed too burdensome a responsibility on entities that experience attacks to individually notify patients when there is no evidence of…
SC: Patients of Milestone Family Medicine notified of data breach
Liv Osby reports: Patients of a Bon Secours St. Francis Health System medical practice are being notified that their personal information may be at risk after a data breach at the practice. On Jan. 4, officials learned that an unauthorized person had gained access to some systems at Milestone Family Medicine in Greenville, St. Francis said…
NZ: Patient documents missing, reportedly lost in ‘a gust of wind’
Joanne Carroll reports: A health board employee is under investigation after “misplacing” hundreds of patients’ medical information – some of which are still missing. The Canterbury and West Coast District Health Board only became aware of what it calls a “potential privacy breach” when a member of the public found some of the documents in…
MT: Rocky Boy Health Center reports breach of personal patient information
MTN News reports: There was a breach of personal patient information at the Rocky Boy Health Center recently. On Thursday evening, Rocky Boy Health Center CEO Jessica Windy Boy posted on the Center’s Facebook page stating health officials became aware of the breach on January 16. The breach reportedly happened on or around January 14….