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Garrett Haake has an update to a potential class action lawsuit filed in June over a breach in May: Attorneys representing more than 1,500 women whose personal medical information was compromised when their records were blown from a dumpster on a windy day in May have reached a settlement agreement with the medical group responsible. In the settlement…

From the FTC: An Atlanta-based health billing company and its former CEO have settled Federal Trade Commission charges they misled thousands of consumers who signed up for an online billing portal by failing to adequately inform them that the company would seek highly detailed medical information from pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies. In a…

The Sony Pictures breach, which normally wouldn’t be covered on this blog, serves as a useful reminder of how much medical and/or health insurance information employers hold on employees – information that you wouldn’t want in the hands of hackers. See Brian Kreb’s post today on the Sony breach. The linked file tree directory is concerning….

Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in North Carolina is notifying more than 25,000 patients after discovering that an error by their IT vendor, TruBridge, had exposed patient information on the Internet between May 2012 and September 29, 2014. TruBridge is a wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Programs and Services, Inc. Forensic investigation revealed that although patients’ names, addresses, dates…

It seems Central Dermatology Center notified HHS that 76,258 patients were affected by the malware insertion in August 2012 that went undetected until September 2014.

To follow up on a previous post,  it seems Visionworks  Inc. did have a second breach recently, and like the first one, it involved hardware that went missing after an upgrade. This one affected 48,000 customers in Jacksonville, FL. In a statement posted on their site, Visionworks writes: Statement on recent Visionworks privacy issue SAN ANTONIO…