From their notification of February 16, 2018 to 6,550 patients, a reminder of the value of good backups. But yet another incident where investigation of a new incident uncovers evidence of a previously undetected intrusion: Privacy Event at Jemison Internal Medicine, PC Jemison Internal Medicine, PC (“JIM”) of Jemison, Alabama has advised its patients of…
Category: Health Data
Santa Cruz Biotechnology notifies employees after burglar snagged their information
From Santa Cruz Biotechnology’s notification template: On Monday, December 18, 2017, we discovered that a burglary had occurred in our Santa Cruz office on or around December 17, 2017. We immediately contacted law enforcement and began an investigation in order to determine what happened and what may have been affected as a result. As a…
FastHealth notifies patients of 2017 incident involving their data
In May, 2017, this site started reporting that a number of healthcare facilities had been impacted by a breach at their vendor, Tuscaloosa-based FastHealth. FastHealth provides website and operational tools and services, including online bill payment. According to FastHealth’s news release at the time, an unauthorized third party had altered code on its web server,…
Mercy Health Love County Hospital and Clinic notifies patients about unaccounted-for computers
Mercy Health Love County Hospital and Clinic in Oklahoma appears to be having a rough year with breaches and notifications. As previously reported on this site, last summer they had an incident involving medical records being stolen for identity theft. They disclosed that incident in July, and in September, 2017, they reported it to HHS….
Nuance says NotPetya attack led to $98 million in lost revenue
Steve Ragan reports: Nuance Communications, a software company that offers speech and imaging technology to a number of markets, including healthcare and finance, said the 2017 NotPetya malware attacks caused the company to lose $98 million in revenue, and that number is expected to grow as they push forward into 2018. The NotPetya disclosure was…
Almost half a million breached health records in January; 60% from one hacking incident alone
Protenus has released its Breach Barometer for January health data breaches. While the number of insider and external incidents continue to run pretty much neck-to-neck, once again external breaches accounted for significantly more breached records than insider incidents. Protenus reports: Of note, hacking incidents affected significantly more patient records, due largely to one particular breach…