Steve Alder reports: A lawsuit against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield that was filed in response to a 2014 data breach has had a contract class certified by a federal judge, 9 years after legal action was initiated. The lawsuit can now proceed and more than 1 million plan members are a step closer to obtaining damages. In…
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Ca: Hacked hospitals sending 326K letters to patients in Windsor, elsewhere
Taylor Campbell reports: Hundreds of thousands of patients, including many in Windsor-Essex, whose personal information was posted to the dark web following a cyberattack last fall will soon receive letters from impacted hospitals. “One patient is clearly too many,” said Windsor Regional Hospital CEO David Musyj. He called criminal cyberattacks “disgusting acts, particularly when aimed…
Au: Diabetes WA reveals data breach
Richard Chirgwin reports: Diabetes WA has disclosed a data breach affecting people who engaged with its telehealth service. In a breach notice posted Tuesday, the organisation said a “third party” gained “access to the personal information of some … contacts.” The personal information possibly exposed in the breach includes name, address, date of birth, email, phone number,…
City of Hope updates a breach disclosure, reports 827,149 patients affected in ransomware attack last year
City of Hope updated its breach disclosure. DataBreaches can now reveal some previously undisclosed details about the 2023 incident. In December 2023, City of Hope, a cancer treatment center in Duarte, California, notified HHS that it had experienced a breach. Its report indicated that “501” patients had been affected, but this was just a marker…
Ernest Health rehabilitation hospitals notify patients of ransom attack in January (2)
As of this morning, more than a dozen rehabilitation hospitals have disclosed a breach with unauthorized access to their systems between January 16 and February 4. The intrusion was discovered on February 1. The attack resulted in access to patient data that included names and at least one of “addresses, birth dates, medical record numbers,…
Grassley, Wyden Probe Data Breach that Exposed 1.5 Million Organ Transplant Patients’ Sensitive Data
AJ Taylor reports: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are holding the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) accountable after a data breach allowed UNOS system users unauthorized access to over a million sensitive patient records. This technology breakdown is the latest in a string of failures at UNOS, which for 40 years…