Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…
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OCR’s Enforcement of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules Continues with Robust 2014
From the I-must-have-a-different-definition-of-‘robust’ dept.: Douglas Dahl writes: With the news of the recent cyber-attack and resulting data breach at health insurance giant Anthem Inc., the buzz around data security and privacy is again high. The Anthem breach serves as a reminder to those entities subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that…
FL: Aventura Hospital and Medical Center notifies more patients of insider breach
It appears that Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Florida is notifying additional patients of a previously disclosed breach involving patient information. On February 27, the hospital submitted a breach notification to HHS indicating that 686 patients were affected by a breach involving unauthorized access/disclosure of PHI. The breach report was submitted the same week a…
Florida Hospital discloses another insider breach
From Florida Hospital’s web site: As a valued patient, your health, safety and privacy are top concerns at Florida Hospital. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident that may have exposed patients’ personal information to people outside our organization. We take this matter very seriously, and are offering affected patients identity theft protection and credit monitoring…
FBI looking into Chinese military involvement in cyber hack of U.S. company
Elizabeth Shim reports: The FBI is probing into possible Chinese military involvement in a data breach of Register.com, a network that manages more than 1.4 million website addresses. The Financial Times reported the cyber attack on the U.S. company included theft of employee passwords and unauthorized access to Register’s network during a yearlong breach that did not…
Equifax mistakenly sends woman 300 other people’s credit reports
So it appears that Equifax mistakenly sent a woman in Maine 300 other people’s credit reports after she requested her own. Read about it on WGME and BDN. So far, Equifax hasn’t offered any explanation as to how this occurred, but given how embarrassing this is for them, I’m sure they’ll follow up.