Jessica Karmasek reports: A Maryland federal court, joining a handful of other federal courts, recently dismissed a data breach class action for lack of standing. Judge Richard Bennett for the U.S. District Court for the District Court of Maryland nixed the putative class action brought against CareFirst Inc. and CareFirst of Maryland Inc. The plaintiffs,…
Category: Health Data
Kaiser Permanente notifies patients after stolen ultrasound machines were recovered
Kaiser Permanente of Northern California is notifying patients after discover of an insider theft. In a letter template uploaded to the California Attorney General’s web site today, Angela Anderson, KP’s Regional Privacy and Security Officer, writes that on June 10, they learned that a number of ultrasound machines had been stolen by two KP employees. The machines were…
FL: Former Insurance Co. Employee Sentenced For Identity Theft (UPDATED)
CBS reports: A former health insurance company employee was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing more than 50 customer identities from her former job. Quinzella Romer, 39, previously pled guilty to one count of possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, in this case social security numbers which had been issued…
Healthcare Sector Under Attack? Yes.
From a new report by InfoArmor: InfoArmor has identified a group of bad actors performing targeted cyberattacks on healthcare institutions and their IT infrastructure, including connected medical devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems (MRI), X-ray machines and mobile computing healthcare workstations. This group of bad actors has performed at least four successful attacks against…
PA: Ransomware attacks info of 13K patients at Ambulatory Surgery Center at St. Mary
Jenny Wagner reports: The Ambulatory Surgery Center at St. Mary is alerting approximately 13,000 patients about a recent data breach involving their personal information. In letters sent to patients last week, the center, which provides outpatient surgical and diagnostic procedures, explained that staff members discovered the breach June 1 when they noticed encrypted files on…
Yet another entity first notifying patients of Bizmatics, Inc. breach
So it appears that Bizmatics, Inc. has continued notifying entities of their 2015 breach. I stumbled across this one today from Arkansas Spine and Pain. We have been notified by our electronic medical record vendor, Bizmatics, that cyber intruders may have installed malware on their system. Bizmatics learned of the intrusion in late 2015, however,…