From Multnomah County, Oregon: January 20, 2017 On August 24, 2012, a Health Department employee began automatically forwarding all emails received in the employee’s county email account to a personal Google email account not maintained by the county. Some of these emails included protected health information (PHI) subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
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Five months after learning of problem, Michigan cancer treatment provider notifies 22,000 patients
On October 21, 2016, Singh & Arora Oncology Hematology PC in Michigan notified HHS of a hacking incident that they reported impacted 16,000 patients. Today, we learn that 22,000 patients are first getting notification letters this week. Why has it taken more than three months since HHS was notified for patients to be notified? Jessica Dupnack reports: According to the letter, one of…
Small Milwaukee publisher sues to stop misrouted medical faxes putting him at risk
Jim Stingl reports: If you fax private medical information to a health management company in Ohio, you don’t expect it to arrive instead at a small publishing firm in Milwaukee. Well, surprise! That’s exactly what has been happening since the summer of 2015. Craig Berg, owner of Moose Moss Press, has tried to make it stop, but the wayward…
Isis-linked hackers attack NHS websites to show gruesome images from Syrian civil war
Kim Sengupta reports: Islamist hackers linked to Isis carried out an attack on a series of NHS websites in a cyber-attack exposing serious flaws in security systems meant to protect sensitive information, The Independent has learnt. Graphic, brutal images of violence from Syria’s war were put up on the sites by a group based in North Africa…
Princeton Pain Management notifies patients after hacker gains access to PHI
Princeton Pain Management is notifying 4,668 patients of a hack that was detected on November 28. Although they found no evidence that data were removed from their system, protected health information (PHI) was accessed. From their notification: What Information Was Involved We believe that this incident may have affected certain information stored in our systems including…
Verity Health System Notifies Thousands of Patients of Web Site Hack That Began in 2015
So after ignoring a few inquiries from DataBreaches.net requesting information, it appears Verity Health System has now issued a statement about a breach reported to HHS on January 11 as affecting 10,164 patients. Here is their press release: Although there is no evidence that patient information was used in an unauthorized fashion, Verity Health System is notifying…