Back in July, this site noted a media report about a ransomware attack on Grays Harbor Community Hospital. At the time, and although the incident had first been reported in the media on June 19, the hospital was still not disclosing a lot of details. Yesterday, the hospital issued a formal notice about the breach,…
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Presbyterian data breach affects some 183,000 patients
Stephen Hamway reports: Presbyterian Healthcare Services reported a data breach that allowed unauthorized access to personal information belonging to around 183,000 patients and health plan members. On Friday, Presbyterian began mailing letters to alert the members and patients affected by the breach. Read more on Albuquerque Journal.
Health IT companies impacted by browser extension data leak: report
Heather Landi reports: Browser extensions, also known as add-ons or plug-ins, are commonly used by desktop Web surfers to do things ranging from blocking ads to remembering passwords to checking grammar. According to an independent security researcher, some extensions have been leaking and exposing browsing activity data, including patient names and health information from healthcare…
Here’s what data breaches are costing companies in 2019
Thomas Barrabi reports: The typical consumer data breach costs compromised businesses millions of dollars, with expenses rising exponentially for incidents on par with those that affected Equifax or Facebook in recent years, according to new research from IBM Security and Ponemon Institute. On a global scale, the average data breach exposes 25,575 sensitive consumer records and carries…
South Texas Dermatopathology and Laboratory of Dermatopathology ADX Notify Their Patients of AMCA Breach (Update4)
Update 1: And now add Seacoast Pathology, (9,300 affected) to the 20,000 described in the original post below, and the approximately 21 million disclosed last month. Update 2 (July 21): And now add American Esoteric Laboratories (541,900), CBLPath, Inc. (148,900), and Natera (unspecified number) to the list and tally. Update 3 (July 22): And now…
PA: Software firm, health care provider accuse each other of theft
Nicholas Malfitano reports on a lawsuit in which a healthcare provider, Post Acute Medical, LLC (PAM), accuses the former owner and operator of its computerized records database, Christopher LeBlanc and Meridian Hospital Systems Corporation of Dallas, Texas, of illegally retaining its confidential patient data. The suit was filed in federal court for the Middle District…