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FastHealth notifies patients of 2017 incident involving their data

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Dissent

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,…

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Mercy Health Love County Hospital and Clinic notifies patients about unaccounted-for computers

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Dissent

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….

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Nuance says NotPetya attack led to $98 million in lost revenue

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Almost half a million breached health records in January; 60% from one hacking incident alone

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Funeral directors, hospital employee charged with corruption, data breach

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Dissent

Matthew Agius reports: Three men have been released on bail in relation to the leaking of personal details relating to deceased hospital patients to funeral directors. The son of a patient who died at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre had told local newspaper the Times of Malta that two funeral directors had turned up at…

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Bathurst pharmacist to pay $17,000 for texting private information about a patient

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Dissent

CBC reports: A Bathurst pharmacist who was caught texting information about a patient to someone outside that person’s “circle of care” has been sanctioned for professional misconduct. Pharmacist Diane Roy was suspended Oct. 3, 2016, from her job at the Bathurst Jean Coutu drugstore after the allegation surfaced, and she was dismissed shortly after. Then, on Nov….

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