WSOC reports: UNC Charlotte employees’ bank accounts were targeted by a hacker. The school was alerted to the breach when it found a problem with an employee’s direct deposit information. Channel 9 reporter Ken Lemon talked to some university employees who didn’t want to go on camera. Their information wasn’t compromised, but they said they…
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PA: Bariatric patients’ privacy was compromised, Crozer-Keystone says
Marie McCullough reports: The Crozer-Keystone Health System revealed Friday that about 900 bariatric-surgery patients’ privacy was breached because of an email error. According to the health system, an employee sent an email June 20 to let bariatric-surgery program patients know about a support group. The email addresses were inadvertently placed in the “cc” or carbon-copy…
Prosthetic & Orthotic Care confirms hack by TheDarkOverlord
Another one of TheDarkOverlord’s targets has issued a statement about the hack and theft of their patient information. DataBreaches.net had identified this entity and first reported on the hack on July 9. Somewhat disturbingly, and as we have seen in other cases with the same parameters, Prosthetic & Orthotic Care (P&O Care) does not appear to…
NY: St. Peter’s gave me other people’s medical records: patient
St. Peter’s Health Partners is looking into a possible confidentiality violation after a man picked up his family’s records at the recently closed Altamont Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and discovered he also received other patients’ medical records. Read more on Albany Times Union.
Another Bizmatics client notifies patients of breach
We’re still learning of other Bizmatics clients who were notified that their patient data may have been acquired by criminals. Lifewellness Institute in California notified HHS this month that they had notified 2,473 of their patients of the incident. In a letter to their patients, a copy of which was kindly provided to DataBreaches.net by Lifewellness Institute, they…
FTC reverses ALJ in LabMD case, finds for itself
From the no-surprise dept., this press release on an opinion by the FTC finding totally in their own favor: Commission Finds LabMD Liable for Unfair Data Security Practices Stating Company Failed to Protect Consumers’ Sensitive Medical and Personal Information The Federal Trade Commission today announced the issuance of an Opinion and Final Order reversing an…