As reported yesterday, more than 1,000 patients have been notified of a breach involving Florida DOH – Palm Beach County. DataBreaches.net has obtained some a few additional details. According to Timothy O’Connor, Public Health Communication Manager, Florida Department of Health – Palm Beach County, agents from the Justice Department first contacted the DOH in mid-February with a list and…
Category: Health Data
NY: Health care agency owner accused of stealing clients’ personal information
Serenity Care’s tagline on their web site is “putting a loving touch on home healthcare.” Maybe it should add, “and putting a touch on your wallet.” The owner of a private home health care agency is under arrest after a nine-month investigation. Allison Delong, 38, owns Serenity Care, which is based in Chatham. Police say Delong stole…
FL Dept. of Health Palm Beach County Notification of Breach
From their public statement today: Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County is issuing a public notice of an unauthorized disclosure and/or use of protected health information pertaining to some clients of its Health Centers. Federal law enforcement officials informed the department they had obtained a list of names, birth dates, social security numbers,…
OptumRx notifying patients after laptop with PHI stolen from vendor’s unattended vehicle
Now what vendor was this? I don’t see anything in recent reports or on HHS’s public breach tool that would identify the vendor. From a notification template by OptumRx: We wanted to make you aware of a recent incident that may have affected some of your health information. On March 22, 2016, we were notified…
CN: Info of 200,000 babies leaked, causes panic among parents
Li Ruohan reports: Personal information of over 200,000 children in Jinan, East China’s Shandong Province, including the cellphone number and home address of their parents have been leaked, triggering widespread concerns on the possible consequences if criminals get hold of the data. The data was offered for 32,000 yuan ($4,900) from hospitals where the children…
MedStar: Ransomware success wasn’t IT department’s fault
Sean Gallagher reports that MedStar is firmly denying others’ reporting about their recent ransomware attack: Tami Abdollah of the Associated Press reported Tuesday that an anonymous source “familiar with the investigation” of the cyberattack claimed that the flaws that allowed attackers to compromise a JBoss Web application server and attack the network with Samsam crypto-ransomware had…