Update: NorthJersey.com reports that the “Medical Management LLC” involved in this breach is based in North Carolina. One rogue employee at Medical Management LLC is resulting in 40 of the billing company’s clients having to notify patients. Medical Management is handling the notifications (template), but even so, this is not the way hospitals want to be in…
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Oh, those old files left lying around on your server, Saturday edition
It turned out to be no huge deal (thankfully), but after an announcement on Twitter by @Compl3x1ty of a login dump involving a medical group’s site, DataBreaches.net attempted to contact the Lutheran Health Network to alert them that data from the St. Joseph Medical Group had been accessed and dumped. The data dump indicated that an SQL injection had…
Ca: Privacy of Rob Ford’s medical records breached by third hospital
Olivia Carville reports: Health professionals have been caught snooping into former mayor Rob Ford’s medical records in four separate privacy breaches in at least three Toronto hospitals, the Star has learned. Last Wednesday, the University Health Network (UHN) notified the provincial privacy commissioner of a fourth breach of Ford’s medical records since his shocking cancer…
Ca: Vitalité Health refers doctor privacy breach to RCMP
CBC News reports: Vitalité Health Network is asking Codiac Regional RCMP in Moncton to investigate after one of its doctors accessed the electronic medical records of dozens of female patients without authorization. An investigation by New Brunswick’s Privacy Commissioner Anne Bertrand determined Dr. Fernando Rojas Lievano of the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton…
Ohio hospital responds after privacy breach allegations
Natalie Tendall When you go to the hospital you expect your private health information to be kept private. But 2 NEWS Investigates uncovered a lawsuit by two local women that alleges they repeatedly had the privacy of their health information violated by employees at Kettering Health Network, also known as Kettering Adventist Healthcare. Read more…
Update: Sutherland Healthcare Solutions breach affected over 220,000 patients, and counting (update1)
Well, I tried to warn Sutherland Healthcare Solutions that they shouldn’t let their breach dribble out and stay in the news cycle, but they declined to be more transparent. So now we have yet more news about their recent breach that affected more than 168,000 patients of Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health as well as an…