Dark Reading reports: Victims of a data breach at health insurer Anthem in February 2015 have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company and are seeking details of an audit by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Anthem’s network security, Modern Healthcare reports. In the cyberattack, hackers compromised personal details of around 80…
Category: Health Data
NHS Trust cancels EVERY operation at three hospitals after its electronic system was hit by a computer virus attack
Abe Hawken reports on what sounds like it might be a ransomware situation (update: nope, it is not): All operations have been cancelled at three hospitals run by the same NHS Trust after a virus attack compromised their computer system. The system, which is run by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust, had to be shut…
UK: Former Solent NHS Trust employee prosecuted for Section 55 offense
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former administrative employee of Solent NHS Trust, Kayleigh Evans, has been prosecuted at West Hampshire Magistrates’ Court for accessing the sensitive medical records of a former girlfriend of her partner, without the consent of the data controller. The unlawful accesses to the records were over a 10 month period….
Three Warner Chilcott District Managers Sentenced for Healthcare Fraud
The following is a press release from the DOJ. But what it doesn’t explain is how the pharmaceutical employees accessed patient information. If they did so (write prior authorization) without the doctors’ knowledge and/or consent, how did they get access to the patient files? And how were they able to put brochures in patients’ files? Three former…
Lee Memorial Hospital patient plans lawsuit over privacy breach
Frank Gluck reports: A former patient of Lee Memorial Hospital says he will sue the health center after an employee photographed him recovering from life-threatening injuries from a motorcycle crash. The attorney for that patient, Dylan Meracle of Cape Coral, notified the hospital and its operator, Lee Health, of the pending lawsuit this week. In…
Australia’s biggest data breach sees 1.3m records leaked
Allie Coyne reports: More than one million personal and medical records of Australian citizens donating blood to the Red Cross Blood Service have been exposed online in the country’s biggest and most damaging data breach to date. A 1.74 GB file containing 1.28 million donor records going back to 2010, published to a publicly-facing website,…