The following is a press release: King of Prussia Dental Associates and its affiliate Pediatric Dentistry of Collegeville (KOP Dental) are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the protected health care information of the organizations’ patients. Recently, KOP Dental detected irregular activity on a computer server and immediately took action. On or about June 1, 2016,…
Category: Health Data
Your Life, Repackaged & Resold: Deep Web Exploitation of Health Sector Breach Victims
A paper by James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, and Drew Spaniel, Researcher, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides an overview of what’s going on on the dark web when it comes to patient-related information. You can access it here.
KS: Breach of Protected Health Information discovered at Decatur Health Systems
September 7 – OBERLIN, KS – On July 25, 2016, it was discovered that a CAT scan log binder detailing patient information was not in its typical location on the Decatur Health System (DHS) premises. The binder was believed to be taken from DHS premises between 5pm on July 22, 2016 and 7am on July 25,…
Baltimore addiction treatment clinic hacked; patients’ info up for sale on dark web (UPDATED)
The non-profit organization Man Alive in Baltimore provides substance abuse treatment and mental health services to some of the city’s neediest residents. As if the facility didn’t have enough challenges, on August 24, they were hacked, and a patient database with sensitive personal and treatment information was put up for sale on the dark web. DataBreaches.net was first tipped to…
WA: Highline Medical Center notifies 18,000 patients whose information was exposed on the Internet by third-party error
The R-C Healthcare Management error that resulted in Bon Secours notifying over 655,000 patients that their protected health information had been exposed on the Internet beginning in April also impacted CHI Franciscan Health Highline Medical Center in Washington. But unlike Bon Secours, which had a current relationship with the vendor, Highline was no longer a client at the time of…
Village of Oak Park incident reported to HHS six months later?
So it seems there was a reported insider breach affecting the Village of Oak Park, Illinois earlier this year. It was picked up by their local media at the time, but never reported to HHS. It’s now been reported to HHS, which is what sent me looking for coverage. On February 25, the Cook County Chronicle…