From their press release: SAMBA Federal Employee Benefit Association (“SAMBA”) recently learned of an incident that may affect information related to eligible family members of subscribers (“family members”) covered by the SAMBA Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan in 2017. “We take this incident, and member privacy, very seriously,” Walter E. Wilson, SAMBA’s Executive Director stated….
Category: Health Data
Southeast Clinical Pathology Laboratories Notifies Patients of Stolen Laptop
From the notice on their web site: March 21, 2018 – Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc. (“CPLSE”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal and protected health information of its patients and their payment guarantors. On September 20, 2017, a laptop issued to a CPLSE employee was stolen….
Prosecution drops five felony charges against Justin Shafer, accepts plea to one misdemeanor charge
In May 2016, the Dallas FBI raided dental integrator and independent researcher Justin Shafer because of allegations that he had accessed an FTP server without authorization. Shafer was subsequently raided twice more, and in March 2017, he was arrested and charged with stalking a federal employee – not hacking or any criminal conduct related to…
AU: Medical records exposed by flaw in Telstra Health’s Argus software
Ben Grubb reports: A flaw in medical software used by more than 40,000 Australian health specialists and distributed by Telstra has potentially exposed Australians’ medical information to hackers, who have been logging into practitioners’ computers and servers to carry out illegal activities. Read more on Sydney Morning Herald.
CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…
Georgia MENTOR notifies patients after disk with protected health information discovered lost in the mail
From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, we are providing potentially impacted individuals with information about the event, steps taken…