As seen on their site: Denton Heart Group (the “Clinic”), a member of HealthTexas Provider Network (HTPN) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On January 11, 2017, we learned that an external computer hard drive was stolen from…
Category: Health Data
BJC HealthCare Raising St. Louis Notifies Participants of Unencrypted Emails
As seen on their site: BJC HealthCare has notified 644 current and former Raising St. Louis participants that identifying information was shared between participating program partners through unencrypted emails. This is outside of established protocols and BJC sincerely regrets this error. However, no information related to Social Security numbers or other financial information was included…
CA: Tarleton Medical discloses breach involving protected health information
Note: the following notification is not from the health center at Tarleton State University, but from a family medicine practice in Rancho Mirage, California owned by Harold L. Tarleton, M.D. I am writing to inform you of a data security incident that may have affected your personal information. Tarleton Medical (“TM”) is committed to providing excellence in…
Study: Healthcare Organizations Are Top Targets for Hackers – 68% Have Compromised Email Credentials
Presser, but has some interesting findings: Evolve IP, The Cloud Services Company™, today released the results of a study of Dark Web email vulnerabilities in the healthcare industry. The research, conducted in a collaboration between Evolve IP and ID Agent, reveals the pervasive nature of email-based cybersecurity attacks and sheds light on the quantity, variety, sources…
Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy notifies more than 6,500 patients after email error
Phoenix, Arizona – March 3, 2017 – Saliba’s Extended Care Pharmacy (“Saliba’s Pharmacy”) is notifying certain patients of the inadvertent e-mailing of December 2016 invoices, which contained patient names, addresses, account balances, and may have also included a description and dosage amount of prescription or over-the-counter medication or other pharmacy items provided by Saliba’s Pharmacy…
UK: £650 fine for former nurse who snooped in patients’ records
There’s an update to a breach first noted in July 2016. The Milford Mercury reports that the nurse, who was sacked after ‘inappropriately accessing’ more than 3,000 patient files over a two-year period, has admitted breaching the Data Protection Act. Sixty-three-year-old Elaine Lewis, from Llansteffan, appeared at Llanelli Magistrates Court today (Friday, March 3). She admitted…