City News Service reports: San Diego Family Care announced Friday it has alerted current and former patients and employees about a computer security breach that may have involved their personal information. […] The issue came to light in December, when officials with SDFC and its business associate, Health Center Partners of Southern California, became aware…
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The City of Chicago Provides Notice of Jones Day Incident Due to Accellion Hack
CHICAGO, May 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The City of Chicago today announced that a third-party vendor executing a data transfer of a select group of City email files given to the law firm Jones Day as part of an independent inquiry being conducted by the firm became subject to a security breach. The breach, which at no time…
CaptureRx – Notice of Data Incident (Update 3)
NOTE: This post is no longer being updated. Please see this article for updates on this incident. Update of May 17: Add Ascension Standish Hospital (1705} and Ascension St. Joseph Hospital (5807). Update of May 12: Add Walmart to your list of covered entities who had patients impacted by the CaptureRx breach. CaptureRx notified them…
A breach of patient information included limited data on 17,655 patients of Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare.
WKTV reports that Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare has disclosed that almost 18,000 of its patients were impacted by a breach at its business associate, CaptureRx. The breach occurred on February 6, and Faxton was notified on March 30. Investigation revealed that the types of ePHI included: First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, Prescription Information,…
Gifford says vendor had data breach
Gifford Health Care last month notified federal authorities of a data breach involving a vendor that helps administer one of the Randolph-based medical center’s drug-pricing programs. Gifford notified the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 23 of a “hacking/IT incident” involving a network server, according to HHS records. Gifford spokeswoman Ashley Lincoln on…
Toronto hit by ‘potential cyber breach’ from Accellion file transfer software
Howard Solomon reports: The City of Toronto says it suffered a “potential cyber breach” from a hack of data from use of its Accellion FTA file transfer server in January that may have involved the health information of individuals. In its initial statement today, the city said it was notified of a potential cyber breach related…