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…
Category: Health Data
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….
UK: Dumbarton sheriff blasts hospital over medical records mix-up
Lennox Herald reports: A Dumbarton sheriff said a hospital could face legal action after it was revealed the wrong medical records had been sent to assist in a case. Sheriff William Gallacher blasted the actions of the hospital, calling the blunder a “catastrophic breach” of data protection. Solicitors had requested medical records for Mark Kelly,…
“Release my husband or else,” US citizen behind HIV data leak threathens to expose information to the public
Anna Maria Romero reports: Singapore — In an affidavit filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, Mikhy Farrera-Brochez admitted that he had the database of the HIV registry in his possession, had brought it into the US, and threatened the Government of Singapore that he would release the data for…