Hmm. The County Line posted the following notice with this preface: Editor’s note: Scenic Bluffs Community Health Centers prepared the following press release on its security breach in late February. Except I don’t see the notice on their site at all. Or on HHS’s breach tool. Did this not appear on HHS’s breach tool because…
Category: Health Data
Data breach affects Billings Clinic patients who used pharmacy at downtown location
Susan Olp reports: A data security breach involving Billings Clinic‘s email system affected 949 patients who used the Atrium Pharmacy, the hospital disclosed Friday. All of the patients who were part of the breach had access to or used the pharmacy at the hospital’s main campus, 2800 10th Ave. N., hospital spokesman Luke Kobold said…
NL: Hospital reprimands 85 staff for peeking at celebrity’s medical files
DutchNews.nl reports: The Haga hospital in The Hague has given 85 members of staff an official warning for looking at the medical files of a television celebrity who was hospitalised after a suicide attempt. Samantha de Jong, better known as Barbie, was admitted to hospital in January after trying to kill herself. She had hardly…
Center for Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 85,000 patients of ransomware attack
The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) in California has three locations in West Hills, Simi Valley and Westlake Village. COS has been notifying 85,000 current and former patients of a ransomware attack on their unnamed IT vendor in February. From their April 18 notice on their web site: The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) recently learned…
Data breach could impact some patients of medical lab chain with Alabama locations
Connor Sheets reports: A data breach may have resulted in the exposure of the personal and protected health information of patients of a medical lab chain with multiple Alabama locations. American Esoteric Laboratories announced Friday that it had become aware of a “data security incident” that could impact patients’ data security. An AEL employees’ company-issued laptop was…
UK: Former hospital worker prosecuted for inappropriately accessing patient records
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former employee of a Milton Keynes hospital trust has been prosecuted for accessing patient records without authorisation. Michelle Harrison, of Milton Keynes, inappropriately accessed the records of 12 patients outside of her role as receptionist/general assistant in the Orthotics Department at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between March…