Greg Meckbach reports: Aviva Canada has a duty to defend a nurse who is being sued for privacy breach by a patient whose medical records were accessed in a Simcoe, Ontario hospital, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled in a decision released March 28. The patient, known in court records as J.L., is suing…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Information breach at Royal Inland Hospital as binder with patient data goes missing
Dale Bass reports: John Ranta isn’t happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital. The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient…
Curry Health Network notifies members of FastHealth breach
Last month, this site noted a FastHealth breach from 2017 that was first being disclosed. FastHealth had reported it to HHS as impacting 1,345 patients. Now Curry Health Network is notifying its members, and it’s not totally clear if these members were included in the number that had been previously reported to HHS. DataBreaches.net emailed FastHealth…
CVS Health Sued For Allegedly Revealing HIV Status Of 6,000 Patients
There’s an update on a breach reported in August, 2017. CBS reports: CVS Health is being sued for allegedly revealing the HIV status of 6,000 patients in Ohio. A federal lawsuit claims CVS mailed letters last year that showed the status of participants in the state’s HIV drug assistance program through the envelopes’ glassine window….
MA: Cambridge Health Alliance notifying patients after law enforcement alerts them to stolen data
They say that they’re not yet sure how a breach involving patient data happened, but Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts was notified by the police that three electronic patient files had been found in possession of an unauthorized party. CHA learned of the breach on January 31, and opened their own investigation, which revealed that…
CareFirst phishing attack could affect 6,800 members
Morgan Eichensehr reports: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Maryland’s largest health insurer, has been the victim of a “phishing” email attack that potentially affected 6,800 of its members. This breach comes about three years after CareFirst weathered another cyberattack that affected more than 1 million of its members. The Baltimore company has 75 percent market share in the…