Elmcroft Senior Living is notifying an unspecified number of residents of a hacking incident that occurred on May 10 and that was discovered on May 12. According to a template of their notification letter submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, the May 10 hack included files containing personal information about residents or their family…
Category: Health Data
BREAKING NEWS: Eleventh Circuit vacates FTC order against LabMD
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s order: This is an enforcement action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) against LabMD, Inc., alleging that LabMD’s data- security program was inadequate and thus constituted an “unfair act or practice” under Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade…
UK: Data breach at medical practice: Shock and disgust as 150 patients affected
Stuart Anderson reports: Patients are outraged after learning a staff member at a doctors’ practice had been inappropriately accessing their medical records. Holt Medical Practice has dismissed the employee and written to the roughly 150 patients affected to let them know about the breach and apologise. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is now investigating after…
Cigna Error Revealed Customer Bank and Claims Data in Asia
Zachary Tracer reports: Cigna Corp. exposed private information including bank-account details of some customers in Asia due to a system error, the health insurer said. The company told Bloomberg it accidentally sent the information to some customers and health-care providers in early May. Sabrina Cheung, a Cigna spokeswoman, said that the situation affected a small…
UPDATED: Dignity Health units disclose breaches in Arizona, Nevada, and California affecting more than 60,000 patients
Last month, Dignity Health reported breaches to HHS that involved three of their hospitals in Nevada: Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – San Martin (1764 patients); Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals – Siena (2078 patients), and Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-DeLima (2174 patients). The incident involved the hospitals providing documentation to an unnamed local…
Medical records for more than 600 patients stolen from Moran Eye Center
Paighten Harkins reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a hard drive from the John A. Moran Eye Center, compromising the medical records of more than 600 of its patients. The theft occurred April 3, when someone took the laptop from locked storage at the center, 65 Mario Capecci Drive, according to a news release….