On January 25, ClickOrlando reported: A hack at a pulmonary practice in Tavares might have exposed sensitive patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories. Officials from AdventHealth said in a news release on Friday that an unauthorized third party gained access to systems at AdventHealth Medical Group Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine at Tavares, formerly…
Category: Health Data
Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City notifies 3,472 patients after surgery schedules stolen from nurse anesthetist’s car
The notice on their web site: Notice to Our Patients of Recent Privacy Incident Anesthesia Associates of Kansas City is committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving some of that information. On December 16, 2018, we learned from an…
2019 Data Breach Barometer Report Shows Massive Increase in Exposed Healthcare Records
HIPAA Journal reports: Protenus has released its 2019 Breach Barometer report: An analysis of healthcare data breaches reported in 2018. The data for the report came from Databreaches.net, which tracks data breaches reported in the media as well as breach notifications sent to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and…
Fla. Courts Require Actual Injury to Demonstrate Standing in Data Breach Cases
Nicole Rekant and Stevan Pardo write: The proliferation of data breach cases in Florida courts has focused on Article III standing. To meet the pleading standard under Article III, a plaintiff must allege sufficient facts to show the injury-in-fact is concrete, particularized, actual, and imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical. An allegation of imminent injury may suffice…
Ca: Doctors snooped into Humboldt Broncos patient records, privacy commissioner finds
Collette Derworiz reports: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner has found several people inappropriately gained access to the electronic health records of the Humboldt Broncos team members involved in a deadly bus crash last April. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the crash between the junior hockey team’s bus and a semi trailer at a…
Update: Hackers release CarePartners employees’ wage statements and other financial files
On February 6, this site broke the news that some data from the CarePartners hack of 2018 was being dumped publicly, presumably as a way to increase pressure on CarePartners to pay the “requested” fee for the hackers not to release any more data. As noted in the February 6 report, there were two data…