I had this deja vu feeling reading a report by Tom Corwin: Nearly five months after it happened, AU Medical Center announced that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts, the hospital announced today. The attack known as phishing, where users unknowingly open up legitimate-seeming but…
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NC: Morehead Memorial Hospital: Data breach may have leaked patient and employee information
Jessica Seaman reports: Morehead Memorial Hospital on Friday said a data breach has potentially exposed patient and employee information. The hospital said personal data may have been obtained through a phishing attack that affected two employee email accounts. Morehead Memorial did not say how many people were affected by the data breach. Read more on…
NJ: Man stole records from doctors’ storage unit
Associated Press reports: Authorities say a man stole hundreds of medical records from a storage unit used by three doctors and then sold the information. Middlesex County prosecutors say Fernando Rios is charged with identity theft, trafficking in personally identifying information and burglary. Authorities say the 33-year-old Sayreville man broke into a storage facility in…
Ca: Employee fired for allegedly ‘snooping’ into patient records
Arthur White-Crummey reports: The Prince Albert Parkland Health Region has fired an employee for allegedly “snooping” into the medical records of her own family members. According to a report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, the employee improperly accessed the patient information of 14 people, including several family members. The health region detected the breach…
Children’s Hospital Colorado notifies 3,400 families after employee’s email account was improperly accessed
From Children’s Hospital Colorado: At Children’s Colorado, protecting the security and confidentiality of patient personal and medical information is of the utmost importance. Regrettably, this notice concerns an unintentional exposure of protected health information that may affect nearly 3,400 patient families. On July 11, 2017, Children’s Colorado learned that a team member’s email account may…
Security breach feared after private patient records found outside old Royal Adelaide Hospital
Katrina Stokes reports: Private patient documents were accidentally left outside the old Royal Adelaide Hospital overnight in a potential security breach that has been labelled ”a serious matter” by doctors. […] A statement provided to The Advertiser from the Central Adelaide Local Health Network admitted the Health Department was “aware of an isolated issue regarding the…