On March 30, they wrote: Exercising an abundance of caution, computer systems at King’s Daughters’ Health were intentionally shut down on Wednesday morning after a single-user’s files were infected with a ransomware virus known as Locky. At this time, all patient data remains secure and has not been affected or compromised, according to Linda Darnell,…
Category: Health Data
NY: Claim That Sheriff’s Agency Accessed Confidential Samaritan Hospital Records Proceeds
There’s an update in litigation that stemmed from a medical privacy breach involving the Rensselaer County Jail and Samaritan Hospital in Troy, New York. It’s a case that I’ve blogged about a number of times since early 2013, when we first learned that employees of the jail had their medical records improperly accessed because a…
PA: Former employee at Kirkbride Center convicted of charges relating to patient data theft for tax refund fraud
There’s an update on an insider breach for tax refund fraud involving patient data from the Kirkbride Center in Pennsylvania. As noted in 2014, the data theft occurred in 2012 and 2013. A federal jury sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania returned a guilty verdict today against an Aldan, Pennsylvania, man on charges related…
Val Verde alerting patients after data breach discovered
Val Verde Regional Medical Center recently discovered a security breach involving a small number of the facility’s overall patient population. On or about Aug. 9, 2015, an independent healthcare provider downloaded unsecured protected health information and emailed it to a personal account without encryption protection. In addition, the independent contractor was not authorized to access…
Vidant Health notifies patients whose PHI was exposed in court bankruptcy filings
Vidant Health, who notified employees at its Duplin hospital of a breach in February, has been notifying patients of a separate breach. In a letter to 897 patients, Privacy Officer Joy Hardee writes that Vidant first discovered a problem on January 14, 2016. The letter does not indicate when the breach first occurred, however. … We are…
NZ: Case note 269784: Employee repeatedly accessed health records without proper reason
There has been a new finding in an investigation by the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand that is especially worth noting for it’s “small breach, big impact” value. Because the health agency is not named, it’s not clear to me whether this incident had been reported in the media and on this site previously: The…