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Dozens Of Northwestern Hospital Workers May Have Been Fired For Improperly Reviewing Jussie Smollett’s Records

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Dissent

Dana Kozlov reports: Dozens of workers at Northwestern Hospital may have been fired for improperly reviewing the medical records of Jussie Smollett, who was treated at the emergency room after he claimed he had been attacked by two men. Sources say those workers have been terminated after gaining access to the “Empire” actor’s medical chart….

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Hacker group behind SingHealth data breach identified, targeted mainly Singapore firms

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Dissent

Eileen Yu reports: Hackers that compromised the data of 1.5 million SingHealth patients has been identified as a group that launched attacks against several businesses based in Singapore, including multinational companies with operations in the city-state. Dubbed Whitefly, the group has attacked organisations in healthcare, media, telecommunications, and engineering, and is likely part of a…

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PA: Former Patient Coordinator Pleads Guilty to Wrongfully Disclosing Health Information to Cause Harm

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Dissent

There’s an update to an insider wrong-doing HIPAA case first reported in July, 2018. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania: PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wrongfully disclosing the health information of another individual, United States Attorney Scott W….

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Update on Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane HIPAA incident affecting 400,000 patients

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Dissent

On February 18, 2019,  Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane notified HHS of a breach impacting 400,000 patients. The incident was coded as a network/IT incident involving data on the network server. DataBreaches.net reached out to the entity for additional details concerning what we hypothesized was a ransomware attack.  But despite two phone calls to the…

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MI: Thousands of Mary Free Bed patients impacted by Wolverine’s ransomware incident (with updates)

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Dissent

Note:  This post started out being about Mary Free Bed being impacted by the Wolverine Solutions breach previously discussed on this site,  but as other entities affected have been identified,  this post is being updated to name them. Fox17 reports on yet another victim entity caught up in the Wolverine Solutions breach: Thousands of patients…

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Health Alliance Plan notifies more than 120,000 patients of Wolverine Solutions Group breach

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Dissent

Entities affected by the Wolverine Solutions Group breach continue to be revealed.  The ransomware incident at the business associate, was reported previously on this site as impacting more than 700 firms who are clients of Wolverine, and more than 1.2 million of those clients’ patients or clients. Today, the Detroit Free Press reports that Health Alliance…

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