Jon Sharman reports: Superdrug has been targeted by hackers claiming they had access to tens of thousands of customers’ personal details including dates of birth and phone numbers. The high street chain it had been contacted by someone who claimed that they had obtained the details of approximately 20,000 customers. The company confirmed that 386 of the…
Category: Health Data
AU:Sexual assault victim’s medical records given to wrong person
Another small-N breach with huge consequences. Chris O’Keefe reports: Ryde Hospital is at the centre of a gross breach of privacy, after the medical records of a sexual assault victim were mistakenly handed to another patient. A young woman was discharged from the hospital in Sydney’s North last week after presenting with a stomach bug….
Legacy Health email breach exposes 38,000 patients’ information
Elliott Njus reports: About 38,000 Legacy Health patients’ personal, medical or billing information might have been accessed in a May email breach, the health system said Monday. The Portland-based nonprofit health system said someone accessed multiple employees’ email accounts, some of which contained patient information. The breach was not discovered until June 21 and not publicly disclosed until…
NHS trusts lost or misplaced 9,100 patient records last year
The Commentator reports: The National Health Service (NHS) has lost almost 10,000 patient records in the last year, according to new research from leading tech think tank Parliament Street. The findings are disclosed in a new report entitled ‘NHS Data Security: Protecting Patient Records’ examines the amount of patient records that have been misplaced from…
$115M Anthem Data Breach Deal Gets Final Nod
Kevin Stawicki reports: A California federal judge on Thursday gave final approval to a $115 million deal that ends claims Anthem Inc. put 79 million consumers’ personal information at risk in a 2015 data breach, casting aside calls for the settlement to go even further to punish the nation’s second-largest health insurer. You can read…
Augusta University Health breach risks health, personal information of 417,000
Matt Kempner reports on a developing story: A breach of email accounts at Augusta University Health may have exposed sensitive health and personal information of about 417,000 people, including patients around the state, the university announced Thursday. Those at risk are primarily patients of Augusta University Health, including Augusta University Medical Center (which is the…