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Some recent additions to HHS’s breach tool

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Dissent

Sometimes it takes a while to find documentation on breaches posted on HHS’s public breach tool. Here are some details on two breaches added to their site this month: Blaine Chiropractic Center – MN On July 14, HHS posted an entry for Blaine Chiropractic Center in Minnesota that affected 1,945 patients.  The incident was coded as…

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences statement on missing patient records

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Dissent

So it appears that University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences had a breach back in January, but only this week (based on the notice’s metadata) posted something on their site about it: UAMS has been unable to notify approximately 15 patients regarding an incident that may have involved disclosure of their personal information. What happened?…

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UK: Bungling contractors throw out 500 confidential documents in Newcastle CQC office refurb blunder

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Dissent

Helen Whitehouse reports: Confidential documents detailing the backgrounds of hundreds of people have gone missing following an office upgrade blunder. Bungling Contractors threw out a locked filing cabinet containing up to 500 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates for people who had applied to become registered managers and providers. The error, which happened during the…

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HHS seeks threat information sharing system for health sector

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Dissent

Amanda Ziadeh reports: The Department of Health and Human Services is looking to strengthen the privacy and security of health care information by sharing cyber threat data with partner agencies and stakeholders. HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response released funding opportunities for an…

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PA: Bariatric patients’ privacy was compromised, Crozer-Keystone says

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dissent

Marie McCullough reports: The Crozer-Keystone Health System revealed Friday that about 900 bariatric-surgery patients’ privacy was breached because of an email error. According to the health system, an employee sent an email June 20 to let bariatric-surgery program patients know about a support group. The email addresses were inadvertently placed in the “cc” or carbon-copy…

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Prosthetic & Orthotic Care confirms hack by TheDarkOverlord

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Dissent

Another one of TheDarkOverlord’s targets has issued a statement about the hack and theft of their patient information. DataBreaches.net had identified this entity and first reported on the hack on July 9. Somewhat disturbingly, and as we have seen in other cases with the same parameters, Prosthetic & Orthotic Care (P&O Care) does not appear to…

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