Fenit Nirappil reports: The D.C. Department of Health has warned hundreds of nurses that their personal information was inadvertently exposed in the online licensing portal and is offering them one year of credit-monitoring services. A nurse navigating the nursing board’s online portal somehow ended up on a nonpublic portion of a database that included the…
Category: Health Data
MN: Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology disclose ransomware incident
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology in Minnesota have notified 6,546 patients and HHS of a ransomware incident that occurred in March. Some time overnight between March 30 and March 31st, the practice’s files were locked up with TripleM ransomware. The ransomware not only locked up the data files, but according to their notification and FAQ…
Brit doctors surgery fined £35k for leaving medical records just lying around for more than 18 months
Paul Kunert reports: Bayswater Medical Centre (BMC) in London is licking its wounds after taking a not insignificant punch to the wallet for discarding highly sensitive medical information in an empty building for a year and a half. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today the data included medical records, prescriptions and patient identifiable medicine….
SimplyWell (Viverae) notifying Lincoln Electric System employees of of personal health info breach
It’s been a while since I’ve noticed a third-party breach of a wellness vendor, but here we go, it seems. SimplyWell (“Viverae”) works with Healthbreak, who provides wellness services to the firm in question. SimplyWell, Inc. (“SimplyWell”) recently discovered a data privacy incident that may affect the privacy of certain Lincoln Electric System (“LES”) employees’…
Data Leak May Have Affected Patients at Muir Medical Group IPA
NBC reports: Muir Medical Group patients who received treatment between November 2013 and February 2017 may have had their personal information shared without their consent, the company reported. The Walnut Creek-based firm discovered the leak on March 7 after a former employee took information with her before her employment ended, according to the company. This…
Update: LifeBridge Health notifying 500,000 patients of security incident
Remember that LifeBridge Health and LifeBridge Potomac Professionals malware incident noted on this site on May 16? Baltimore Sun reports that they are notifying 500,000. Ouch.