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IN: Methodist Hospitals notifies 68,039 after two employees fall for phishing attack

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Dissent

HealthIT Security also reports a breach at Methodist Hospital. There are many hospitals with “Methodist” in their name, so to be clear: this incident involved Methodist Hospitals in Indiana. Two employees of the Methodist Hospitals fell victim to phishing scams, which potentially compromised the data of about 68,039 patients. In June, officials said they detected…

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528K Patients Impacted by Months-Long North Florida OB-GYN Hack

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Dissent

Jessica Davis reports: The North Florida OB-GYN in Jacksonville, part of Woman’s Care Florida, recently began notifying 528,188 patients of a months-long cyber incident that potentially breached their health information. First discovered on July 27, officials said they determined certain parts of their computer systems were impacted by a cyber incident that began on or…

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MN: Blue Earth to replace gym floor after cybersecurity attack

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Dissent

That headline is a bit of a head-scratcher, isn’t it? Katie Mulllaly explains: Blue Earth Area High School is looking to replace its gymnasium floor in the wake of a Sept. 19 cyberattack at the school. The attack left the floor susceptible to humidity, damaging it. At the school board meeting this week, Superintendent Mandy…

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IN: Patient’s claim her x-rays were wrongly shared reinstated

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Dissent

Katie Stancombe reports: A Lake County woman whose medical records were unknowingly shared with her employer by a Community Hospital worker in Munster who took her x-rays has won a reversal of her dismissed complaint against the hospital. Amanda Henry, who received medical treatment in March 2018 at Community Hospital in Munster, was required to…

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Taconic Biosciences settles lawsuit stemming from 2017 W-2 phishing breach (updated)

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Dissent

One of the victim companies of a W-2 phishing attack that this site reported in 2017 was a New York firm called Taconic Biocences.  A copy of their notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is still available online, here. Recently, News10 in New York reported that there has been a $2.7 million settlement in…

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Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta discloses three phishing incidents in 6 months

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Dissent

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has had its name cross my desk a lot this past year. And that’s not a good thing. There have been five Cancer Treatment Centers of America breach notices that have been publicly disclosed since November 2018. Three of them involved the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Atlanta,…

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