Well, this is a bit different. Lafayette Pain Care, PC in Indiana notified HHS on May 9 about hacking/IT incident that affected 7,500 patients. In trying to track it down (there’s nothing that I could find on their web site), I came across a media report from May 10 that links this to the Bizmatics,…
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Nostalgic for a backup drive breach? Here it is…
The days of backup drives with unencrypted information being stolen from unattended vehicles is not totally a thing of the past. On April 26, New Hampshire Distributors, LLC notified the state attorney general’s office that a stolen backup drive contained information on 924 New Hampshire residents. The total number of individuals affected was not disclosed. It’s…
Florida Medical Clinic, PA notifies 1,000 patients after Greenway Health error exposed PHI
The following statement was posted by Florida Medical Clinic, PA on their web site. The incident was reported to HHS on May 4 as impacting 1,000 patients. Please be advised from November 18th, 2015 to January 6th, 2016 your Florida Medical Clinic, PA patient due balance statement (sample statement attached) was accessible to industrial account…
Children’s National Medical Center blames former transcription vendor for privacy breach
In March, 2015, the D.C.-based Children’s National Medical Center notified 18,000 patients of a breach that occurred between July 26, 2014 and December 26, 2014 after employees fell for phishing emails. In May, 2015, they were sued over that breach. Now, CNMC has disclosed another breach, this one involving a former vendor who provided medical transcription services. Their press…
Student disability info ‘lost’ by uni was unencrypted and unsecured
Tom Joyner reports: The disability information of nearly 7,000 current and former students of the University of Sydney “lost” in a major privacy breach in February was unencrypted and unsecured, an internal review of incident has found. The information was lost when a software developer employed by the University left a laptop containing a student disability…
CH: Sensitive personal information of secret Swiss army unit likely hacked by Russians
SwissInfo.ch reports on what is potentially a very serious breach that could put lives at risk: The bad news on Wednesday that hackers had targeted the Swiss defence ministry in January became worse news on Sunday, when the weekly newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported that the identities of members of a secret Swiss army unit…