Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause in New Jersey recently started notifying patients of an incident involving their electronic health records server, maintained by an unnamed third party. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Diamond’s external counsel wrote: On February 27, 2017, Diamond discovered that an unknown individual had gained access to the…
Category: Health Data
Hard drive with medical information on 2,200 LSU Health patients stolen
Chad Calder reports: A hard drive containing the personal information of 2,200 LSU Health New Orleans patients was stolen in March, and while police quickly made an arrest, the hard drive has not been recovered, the LSU Healthcare Network said Friday. The network said the theft occurred in the Department of Neurology Research on or…
Ca: Chatham-Kent Health Alliance discloses March privacy incident
Matt Weverink reports: Two months after a privacy breach took place at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, the hospital is now reporting the incident to the public. Hospital officials say on March 6, 2017, a document containing sensitive health information about seven patients was found on the front lawn of a community member. The document was…
TheDarkOverlord dumps 180,000 patients’ records from 3 hacks
While thousands of their followers on Twitter seem to be eagerly waiting for TheDarkOverlord (TDO) to dump more tv films or episodes of popular series, TDO went non-fiction this morning, dumping patient/medical records from some of their hacks in the healthcare sector last year. All told, almost 180,000 patients had their personal information shared with the world. Two of…
Hundreds of thousands of kids have identity info hacked from pediatricians’ offices
As Robert Lord of Protenus explains in the May issue of Compliance Today, pediatric patient data continues to remain not only vulnerable to criminals, but also quite valuable to them, in part because the medical records of these young patients provide criminals a blank slate upon which they can build a false identity. This—combined with the fact…
Lithuania: Cybercriminals Blackmail Plastic Surgery Clinic with Stolen Photos
Šarūnas Černiauskas reports: Cybercriminals who stole personal records and photos of patients from the data system of a Lithuanian plastic surgery clinic – including those of national and foreign celebrities – have put them up for sale. The perpetrators put the Grožio Chirurgija data online, at a Dark Web website and are selling them for…