September 28, 2018 Toyota Industries North America, Inc. (“TINA”), which is headquartered in Columbus, Ind. and provides administrative services to its affiliated North American entities, is notifying individuals of a data security incident. The incident could potentially impact the security of certain personal and protected health information regarding approximately 19,000 current/former employees and health plan…
Category: Health Data
Russian Hackers Indicted
Seven Russian government operatives have been charged with hacking into the computer networks of organizations working to investigate and stop Russian athletic doping, just after Russia was banned from the Olympics due to state-sponsored doping revelations. The hackers also allegedly targeted other international entities seen as thwarting Russia’s strategic interests. According to an indictment unsealed…
GA: Gwinnett Medical Center investigating possible data breach
Update: After posting the article below, this site was contacted by the Twitter user who was posting data on Twitter, @baidu3250617231 provided additional proof, including pictures allegedly taken from an Axis camera. Other details were also provided to Steve Ragan of Salted Hash. Steve Ragan of Salted Hash has a possible breach report involving Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC) that…
Oklahoma DHS could have sent private medical info to wrong addresses
Dale Denwalt reports: Officials at the Department of Human Services said Monday that a small number of clients were affected this year by a computer error that labeled envelopes with incorrect addresses. A labeling error affected notices that informed patients and their guardians about changes to their plan of care. Letters were meant for people…
Ogdensburg hospital terminates employees following breaches of patient information; says police not involved
Jimmy Lawton reports: Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center says “breaches of patient information were discovered” during a recent internal investigation, but employees who purposefully committed the acts have been terminated. CHMC spokeswoman Laura Shea said the hospital dealt with the breach immediately and took action required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which outlines…
Government Data Says Millions Of Health Records Are Breached Every Year
Michela Tindera reports: Either hackers want your health data, or companies like health insurers can’t keep that information safe. That’s a according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number of annual health data breaches increased 70% to 344 over the past seven years, with 75% of the breached, lost,…