Alisa M. Shafer reports: Manitowoc County officials have released more information about a data breach of a Manitowoc County email account in January. The press release from June 22 states: “On or around January 14, 2018, an unauthorized party was able to gain access to a Manitowoc County email account most likely through what is called…
Category: Health Data
Humana notifies members after credential stuffing attack on Humana.com and Go365.com
Health insurer Humana recently began notifying an unspecified number of health plan members after detecting and blocking a credential stuffing attack against Humana.com and Go365.com. The attacks took place on June 3 and June 4 from overseas IP addresses. In a notification letter dated June 21, Jim Theiss, Humana’s Chief Privacy Officer, writes: On June 3,…
Associated Dermatology and Skin Cancer Clinic notifies patients after journal stolen from employee’s car
Associated Dermatology and Skin Cancer Clinic of Helena notified 1,254 patients of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information. On May 26, an Associated Dermatology employee learned that someone had broken into her car and taken a journal she had been keeping for personal use to assist her in her care of Associated…
UK: Anger after data of hundreds of patients at GP practice is sent out in post
Lewis Clarke reports: Data of hundreds of residents who had not had an NHS health check have been sent to a patient by mistake. The data breach was discovered by staff at Amicus Health which runs Clare House Surgery on June 15 when a list containing the name, date of birth, age and gender of…
Laptop containing Northwest Territories residents’ health info stolen in Ottawa
Alex Brockman reports: A laptop containing health information on people living in the Northwest Territories was stolen from a vehicle in Ottawa, according to a news release from the territory’s health department. The laptop held comprehensive health data on patients in the N.W.T. and their health history. The computer was stolen from a locked vehicle…
LabMD litigators on what case says about US cyber regulation
David Cohen, Douglas Meal, and Michelle Visser of Ropes and Gray, the firm that represented LabMD against the FTC, write: Representing LabMD in its successful petition to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has been a fascinating experience in a number of ways. One of those is what the case reinforced for…