On October 5, Health First, Inc., a Florida-based healthcare provider, notified HHS of a breach that affected 42,000 patients. The incident was coded on HHS’s breach tool as hacking/IT incident involving e-mail. It has taken a while to obtain more details, but DataBreaches.net has now received a statement from Matthew Gerrell, Senior Vice President, Consumer…
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Jobscience breach impacted multiple health systems’ job applicants (UPDATED)
This week, Huntsville Hospital in Alabama disclosed a breach involving their vendor, Jobscience. The breach affected those applying for employment with the hospital. But Huntsville wasn’t the only hospital affected by Jobscience’s breach. In October, and flying under most media radar, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Florida disclosed that they had been contacted by Jobscience on…
OH: Little Miami High School profile hacked on Google
Audra Levy reports: If you went looking for the profile of Little Miami High School on Google on Thursday, you would have been in for a surprise. Someone hacked the profile and renamed the school “Gay Night Club For Teens”. That “someone” appears to have used the school network, and the administration seems to think…
Children served by Florida DOH child protective services may have had psychological and medical info accessed in hack
From the Pensacola News Journal: The Florida Department of Health has reported a data breach that may have comprised the personal information of some patients in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties. The department completed an investigation and found that an unauthorized user compromised the Microsoft Outlook 365 account of an employee of the Children’s Medical…
Medical records of 1,216 Upstate University Hospital patients breached by former employee
James T. Mulder reports: An Upstate University Hospital employee inappropriately accessed the medical records of 1,216 patients without a work or job-related reason. Upstate announced it is contacting affected patients and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the privacy breach. The former employee accessed the records between Nov. 3, 2016 and Oct….
PA: May Eye Care notified 30,000 patients after ransomware incident
Ransomware continues to pose a major threat to covered entities, and not surprisingly, an incident reported to HHS in October by a Hanover, Pennsylvania eye care center turned out to be yet another ransomware incident. The practice kindly sent me a copy of the notification letter they sent to 30,000 patients: Dear Sir or Madam,…