AP reports: A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said. Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage units near Farmington. They were taken from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock last fall without authorization, officials said. Read more on KOAT. Notification…
Category: Health Data
Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
Update: MedStar subsequently denied this report. See Ars Technica’s coverage of their response. Original story: Tami Abdollah reports: The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be…
Metropolitan Jewish Health System notifies members and patients of phishing incident
Notice Regarding Phishing Email Incident Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Inc. and its participating agencies and programs (including Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm d/b/a Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care; Metropolitan Jewish Home Care, Inc. d/b/a MJHS Home Care; MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.; Institute for Applied Gerontology d/b/a MJHS…
King’s Daughters’ Health shut down systems after Locky detected.
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,…
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…