Software updates are an all-too-common source of breaches. Here’s another one, this involving Blue Shield of California. From their notification to the California Attorney General’s Office: As the (unintended) result of a computer code update Blue Shield made to the website on May 9, three users who logged into their own website accounts simultaneously with…
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NY: Metropolitan Hospital Center notifies almost 4,000 patients of breach
The NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation is providing some powerful reminders of the importance of auditing and monitoring employee emails. Last month, I noted that they had detected breaches involving patients at Bellevue Hospital and Jacobi Medical Center. On June 1, HHC notified HHS of yet another email-related breach, this one involving Metropolitan Hospital Center….
Shorter University data breach lawsuit advances
Oops – found this one sitting in drafts folder. I should have posted it two weeks ago. Law360 reports: A Georgia federal judge on Thursday trimmed breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation claims from a proposed putative class action over the theft of student medical data at a state university, but refused to let the…
Medical Informatics Engineering hacked; patient info involved
AP reports: A Fort Wayne medical software company is notifying patients of health care providers it serves that their private information might have been exposed when its networks were hacked, it said Wednesday. Medical Informatics Engineering said the attack on its main network and its NoMoreClipboard network began May 7 and wasn’t detected until May…
Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…
NY: 18,000 North Shore University Hospital- LIJ patients notified 8 months after data theft at business associate’s offices
Candic Ruud reports: The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is warning about 18,000 patients that their personal, health and insurance information is at risk due to a potential data breach. Five laptops were stolen last September from the offices of Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ and other providers…