Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this month, KrebsOnSecurity featured a story about a basic security flaw in the Web site of medical diagnostics firm True Health Group that let anyone who was logged in to the site view all other patient records. In that story I mentioned True Health was one of three major healthcare providers with…
Category: U.S.
University of Wisconsin Health: UW Health: Information on 2,036 patients compromised after data breach
UW Health says that 2,036 patients had information compromised after an employee’s email account was used by an unauthorized user. UW Health says they learned on March 28, 2017 that a breach of information happened on March 16, 2017. Officials say an unauthorized individual got access to an employee’s credentials and email account. UW Health…
Target to Pay 47 States $18.5M to Settle Data Breach Case
Stephen Joyce reports: Target Corp. will pay $18.5 million to settle state enforcement actions over the retailer’s payment card hacking breach that affected as many as 60 million customers during the 2013 winter holiday shopping season, a coalition of 47 state attorneys general announced May 23. The settlement capped an investigation led by Illinois Attorney…
NY: Niskayuna school laptop stolen, 945 students’ personal information on device
The personal information of 945 students, both past, and present, was compromised as a result of a thief stealing the laptop of a Niskayuna school psychologist. The school psychologist had been on vacation in Virginia over the school’s spring break period and their car was broken into and the laptop was taken. The window of…
Calling time of death on HHS’s “breach tool”
I was excited back in 2010 when HHS started posting breaches on what some would call the “wall of shame.” I knew that we’d only learn about breaches involving HIPAA-covered entities, but at least we were finally starting to get some actual data. Now, more than 6 years later, it’s become clear to me that it’s probably best to just call time of death…
Careless handling of HIV information jeopardizes patient’s privacy, costs St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center $387k
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services(HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has announced a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) settlement based on impermissible disclosure of protected health information (PHI). St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center Inc. (St. Luke’s) has paid HHS $387,200 to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule…