Sandra Chereb reports: Auditors delayed release of a report detailing security vulnerabilities in state databases to protect the information of tens of thousands of current and former state employees and their beneficiaries, a legislative committee was told Tuesday. Douglas Peterson, information systems audit supervisor, told the Legislative Audit Subcommittee it was the first time he…
Category: Of Note
$2.14 million HIPAA settlement underscores importance of enterprise-wide risk analysis
St. Joseph Health (SJH) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules following the report that files containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) were publicly accessible through internet search engines from 2011 until 2012. SJH, a nonprofit integrated Catholic health care delivery…
6th Circuit denies en banc on data breach standing issue. Prelude to SCOTUS?
Alison Frankel reports: … The 6th Circuit denied a petition by Nationwide Insurance to rehear a three-judge panel’s Sept. 2016 decision to allow a negligence class action stemming from a 2012 data breach to proceed. Nationwide’s lawyers at Morgan Lewis & Bockius argued in the en banc petition (as the insurer argued in federal district court in Columbus, Ohio, and before…
thedarkoverlord dumps data from Peachtree Orthopedics after failed extortion attempts
Just another day on the internet, where hackers are hacking and leakers are leaking and thedarkoverlord is dumping PHI data from american based companies yet again. The associated with this partial leak of data is not anything new, databreaches.net had reported on this a back in august and now thedarkoverlord has partially come public with…
So what kind of month was September for the healthcare sector?
Looking for some monthly stats on healthcare data breaches in the U.S.? See Protenus’s Breach Barometer for September, produced in conjunction with DataBreaches.net.
Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic notifies patients of hack (Update3)
Months after it was hacked by TheDarkOverlord, a second Atlanta orthopedic clinic notifies patients. Peachtree Orthopedic Clinic in Atlanta has disclosed that they were hacked. WSBTV has the story. But the hack wasn’t on September 22 as the news cast seems to suggest – that’s just when they confirmed it. This is all quite interesting, because I had…