Although no actual or attempted access or misuse of patient or guarantor information has been discovered, RCM Enterprise Services, Inc. (“RCM”) is providing notice to certain individuals regarding an error in the invoice mailing process that caused individually identifiable information to appear in the clear address “window” on medical invoices. RCM provides patient billing services…
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CO: Aurora Water announces data breach involving Click2Gov payment system
Author: Janet Oravetz reports: Personal information of some Aurora Water customers, such as names, card numbers and expiration dates, may have been compromised through a data breach, according to the city’s water department. The department made an announcement about the security incident on Monday and said customers who used the Click2Gov payment system to make one-time…
As 2019 draws to a close, some entities are taking harder look at storing PHI in employee email accounts
Okay, so two exemplars doesn’t prove any kind of trend, but I’m glad to see some entities now taking steps to reduce how much PHI is stored in employee email accounts. Here are two recent incidents, both reported to HHS in December: Healthcare Administrative Partners (HAP) is a Pennsylvania-based business associate under HIPAA. On December…
SG: Personal data of Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces were potentially affected by unrelated attacks on two vendors
Clara Chong reports that two unrelated incidents involving government vendors had put the data of Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces staff at risk. 2,400 Mindef and SAF leaked after ST Logistics phished: The data included the full names and NRIC numbers, and a combination of contact numbers, e-mail or residential addresses, Mindef said…
UK: Ex-employee of ICT contractor jailed for Jet2 cyber attacks
A disgruntled ex-employee has been jailed after he admitted carrying out cyber attacks against Jet2 which took down their computer systems for more than 12 hours. NCA investigators proved that 27-year-old Scott Burns from Morley, Leeds, illegally accessed a domain operated by Dart Group and their subsidiary, Jet2, on two separate occasions in January 2018….
AU: Nine more charges for NSW data breach accused
Steven Trask reports: The Sydney IT contractor allegedly responsible for a massive data breach that cost an ASX-listed property evaluation company more than $8 million is now facing additional charges. Stephen Grant allegedly accessed and published more than 170,000 data sets including names, addresses, contact numbers, property valuations and driver’s licences between September 2017 and…