From AmberCare Hospice, this notice of a laptop theft incident: Recent Data Incident Affecting AmberCare Hospice Patients Ambercare Corporation, Inc. (“Ambercare”), a provider of personal care, hospice, and home health services, is committed to protecting its clients’ confidentiality. Ambercare has recently provided notice to certain New Mexico residents about an incident affecting their personal information….
Category: Health Data
State survey leads to Vermont Health Connect email breach
Mike Faher reports: A survey snafu last week led to the disclosure of some Vermont Health Connect and Medicaid customers’ email addresses, state officials said Thursday. In total, 127 people sent emails – some inadvertently and some not – to other health insurance consumers amid confusion about an online survey issued July 20 through the Department…
Mumbai: Ransomware hits Dadar CA’s office, demands payment in bitcoins for decryption
Mohamed Thaver reports: A day after a Navi Mumbai hospital and hotel became targets of a ransomware attack, cyber fraudsters encrypted data belonging to a Dadar-based chartered accountant and demanded money to remove the block on the data on Monday. While the incident took place on Monday, the complainant, realised that his data has been blocked…
Confluence Health discloses patient data breach after employee email account hacked
Jefferson Robbins reports: Confidential patient information may have been released in an email breach at Confluence Health, the Wenatchee medical organization said in a Saturday press statement. The information contained in an employee’s breached email account may have included “some patient information” including name and treatment, the press release said, but no financial information was…
BUSTED? A blackhat’s revenge exposes a 2-year old patient data hack that Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center failed to disclose
A blackhat hacker known as “Lifelock” had claimed Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center knew about his hack two years ago but failed to disclose it to patients or HHS. A follow-up investigation by DataBreaches.net uncovered evidence supporting his claim. The evidence has been turned over to federal regulators. On June 2, DataBreaches.net reported that…
Patient data found in Helsinki street
YLE reports: Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reports that a trove of patient data including names and personal ID numbers has been found in the Pasila district of Helsinki. The data is from patient records from a contraception clinic from the 1980s and 1990s. An IS reader spotted the papers and found six documents on Asemapäällikönkatu, before…