The following notice from Choice Rehabilitation is dated December 18, 2018, but first appeared in STLToday on December 31, 2018: December 18, 2018 Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO notified more than 500 residents of a breach of unsecured resident health information after discovering the following event: On November 7, 2018, Choice Rehabilitation, (Choice) discovered…
Category: Health Data
Dental Center of Northwest Ohio’s notifies patients after IT vendor Arakÿta experiences ransomware incident
TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dental Center of Northwest Ohio (the “Dental Center”) is providing notice to current and former patients and employees of a recent incident involving personal information. To date, the Dental Center has not received any reports that personal information has been misused as a result of this incident. On or about September 1, 2018, the…
Privacy breach at Family Physicians Group may have affected 8,400 Orlando patients
Naseem S. Miller reports: Family Physicians Group, a large practice in Orlando that was recently acquired by Humana, is notifying more than 8,000 patients about a privacy breach that may have compromised their personal health information. The breach occurred due to a phishing attack on an employee’s email account, the company said in a news release…
Blue Cross: Theft of employee’s computer may have compromised 15,000 customers’ data
Dave Bartkowiak Jr. reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Friday that the personal data of nearly 15,000 of Medicare Advantage members may have been compromised after an employee’s laptop computer was stolen in October. Blue Cross said it was notified on Nov. 12, 2018 by COBX, a subsidiary company vendor serving Medicare Advantage business for them, that…
Four months after disclosing breach, Adams County, Wisconsin notifies HHS
Adams County, WI disclosed a breach in August that affected 258,000 and may have been an insider breach. But they only notified HHS/OCR of that breach a few weeks ago. I wonder why. There’s nothing on their site to explain the late notification.
After nearly five years lawsuit against Flowers Hospital is over
WTVY reports that lawsuit stemming from an insider breach that was part of a tax refund fraud scheme has settled: A federal lawsuit claiming a Dothan hospital’s negligence resulted in the theft of patients’ personal information has been dismissed. Attorneys agreed to a settlement and a judge approved it. The settlement calls for Flowers Hospital…