Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital, a not-for-profit community hospital located in Yakima, Washington resolving an investigation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). OCR investigated allegations that several security guards from Yakima Valley Memorial…
Category: Health Data
Cyberattack is a factor in Illinois hospital’s closure
Sean Lyngaas reports: A hospital in Illinois will close on Friday due in part to a cyberattack – a rare case of a health care provider publicly linking a hack incident to its closure. The 2021 cyberattack on St. Margaret’s Health, a hospital in Spring Valley, Illinois, hobbled computer systems for months and prevented it…
CloudSEK report says hackers don’t have access to CoWin’s backend database
Ayushman Kuman reports: A day after a Telegram bot provided access to the personal information of individuals who had reportedly registered for vaccination through the government’s CoWIN portal, an independent analysis by CloudSEK has shown that the threat actors do not have access to the entire portal or the backend database. CloudSEK is a Singapore-based…
Data breach prompts University of Pittsburgh Medical Center billing contractor to contact 25,000 patients
Kris B. Mamula reports: Some 25,000 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) patients are being contacted by a Tennessee billing contractor following a data breach caused by a software bug that may have exposed names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. Kingsport-based Intellihartx LLC, which provides UPMC with billing and collection services, is…
Aadhaar, PAN card data of COVID vaccine takers’ leaked on Telegram via CoWIN portal: Report
Vivek Singh Chauhan A concerning report has surfaced revealing a significant data breach involving the personal information of citizens in the country, including their PAN and Aadhaar card details. The leaked data has been found on the messaging platform Telegram. Take a look at the details. CoWIN data breach: who has been affected and how?…
Intellihartx notifies 490,000 patients of Fortra/GoAnywhere breach (with updates)
Quick update: Intellihartx LLC in Tennessee is notifying 489,830 of its clients’ patients about the Fortra/GoAnywhere breach by Clop. The types of information that may have been compromised include name, address, medical billing and insurance information, certain medical information such as diagnoses and medication, and demographic information such as date of birth and Social Security…