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More than a year later, Lifeline Health Systems notifies 75,000 people of a data breach

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Dissent

Lifeline Health Systems is a HIPAA-covered entity, although not all the data involved in their 2022 breach was protected health information. Some of the data related to employees and family members. But here’s the timeline Lifeline provides in their notification template: On August 6, 2022, we identified unusual network activity. We immediately initiated our incident…

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The Government Isn’t Sure How to Get Small Hospitals to Take Cybersecurity Seriously

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dissent

Eric Geller reports: The U.S. government is struggling to convince hospitals that they need to spend time and money fighting hackers and provide useful advice to them, a problem that could have lethal consequences as the country’s ransomware crisis rages on. “I don’t think we’ve figured out how to talk to the small and medium-sized…

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Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 243,000 patients of cyberattack

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dissent

On April 1, DataBreaches reached out to Bienville Orthopaedic Specialists (BOS) in Mississippi to ask about a claim by Abyss threat actors that they had compromised BOS. BOS never replied. But now, five months later, BOS submitted a breach notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office.  The notification indicates that 242,986 people were affected by…

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FTC Finalizes Order with 1Health.io Over Charges it Failed to Protect Privacy and Security of DNA Data and Unfairly Changed its Privacy Policy

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dissent

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with 1Health.io that settles charges that the genetic testing firm left sensitive genetic and health data unsecured, deceived consumers about their ability to get their data deleted, and changed its privacy policy retroactively without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their consent. In a complaint first announced in June 2023, the…

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Janssen health database breached in cyber incident

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dissent

Stefanie Schappert reports: IBM announced Wednesday that an unauthorized party breached the patient healthcare database it manages for the Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen CarePath platform. Many of the patients are or have been treated for serious diseases, such as cancer. […] IBM says the breach exposed the sensitive information of an undisclosed number of patients,…

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Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery notification — and what it doesn’t tell the patients.

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dissent

On July 17, DataBreaches reported that BlackCat had added the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery (BHPS) to their dark web leak site. The June listing was updated to include photos that appeared to be proof of claims about their access to the clinic’s files. The doctors did not respond to DataBreaches’ inquiries in July, but on…

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