Katie Hall reports: A data breach at a local clinic caused the information of about 2,0000 (sic) patients to leak online, the Austin doctor’s office announced Monday. Names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, medical account numbers, preferred language, race and ethnicity were disclosed, Victory Medical Center said in a news release Monday….
Category: U.S.
Nearly 2,500 North Dakotans face a privacy breach
The North Dakota Department of Human Services is notifying 2,452 Medicaid program recipients or their guardians/personal representatives about a breach of the recipients’ protected health information. The department is mailing letters to affected individuals and has posted a notice to its website to apologize, provide details about the breach, and offer credit/identity theft monitoring services….
University of Alaska: thousands affected by data breach, including names, social security numbers
KTUU reports: Approximately 25,000 students, staff, and faculty members associated with the University of Alaska were affected following a successful phishing scam and subsequent data breach late last year. The University of Alaska sent out letters to those people who had their names and accompanying social security numbers exposed to “an individual or individuals unknown…
Protecting Sensitive Hospital Data Is Becoming Harder For Some Entrepreneurs
Melissa Thompson reports: The Wall Street Journal recently ran a disturbing article about hospital data security — or the lack thereof. It seems that Tanium, a new cybersecurity company, is alleged to have used private data from a hospital in El Camino, CA during their sales demonstrations with other health facilities throughout the state, and…
Laptop stolen from Tulsa firm contained customers’ personal data
Abby Bitterman reports: Personal information of about 3,400 customers may have been compromised in an internal theft of a Tulsa-based medical supplier database. In a statement on its website, LKM Medical said two employees on Jan. 3 stole a company computer with customer information stored on it. The employees have been fired. “This discovery is…
Customer data stolen as S.F. cybersecurity firm hacked, Stanford medical school reportedly a client
Ethan Baron reports: Cybersecurity is big business in the Bay Area, with new firms popping up virtually every week to meet the global demand for data protection in a world teeming with sophisticated hackers. Now one of the region’s more established firms has been hacked, with customer data stolen, according to a company blog post…