Another FastHealth client is disclosing the vendor’s malware breach to its patients. Eve Newman reports: More than 500 Ivinson Memorial Hospital patients should receive notices in coming days that their billing and health information might have been compromised because of a security breach involving a hospital website vendor. FastHealth, which provides website services to IMH,…
Category: Health Data
University of Iowa Health Care notifies 5,292 patients about files exposed online for two years
Public Notice – Patient Information Improperly Disclosed at University of Iowa Health Care On April 29, 2017, University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) discovered that, in May 2015, a limited set of data containing protected health information of approximately 5,300 patients at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics was inadvertently saved in unencrypted files that…
OR: Prineville woman charged in St. Charles Bend data breach
Barney Lerten reports the latest update on an insider-snooping case previously noted on this site: Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed criminal charges Tuesday against a Prineville woman for illegally accessing scores of electronic patient records in the St. Charles Health System. Dawnielle Vaca, 35, while employed as a certified nursing assistant at St….
Menlo Park dental practice notifies patients of hack and ransom demand
The following is one of the best notification letters I have ever read. I have sent an email to Dr. Yaley to ask a few questions for clarification and follow-up purposes, as some of this sounds like it could be the work of TheDarkOverlord. Regardless of who the attackers are, however, the notification letter below could…
AU: Health department contacts parents after confidential information goes missing
Port Pirie hospital is contacting 234 families after a laptop computer was stolen from the premises. The laptop, used as part of the State-wide Infant Screening Hearing Program, had a security password login and cannot be used as a personal device. But Regional Director Yorke and Northern Roger Kirchner said because hearing test data was…
FL: Notice from Baptist Medical Center South to EEG Patients Regarding a Missing Hard Drive
Baptist Medical Center South (“Baptist South”) is committed to protecting the security and con dentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On May 18, 2017, Baptist South learned that a backup hard drive used for EEG testing was missing from an EEG room. We immediately began…