Whitney Downard reports: More than 100 Lauderdale County employees had their sensitive information shared via email to other employees covered by the county’s healthcare plan in an accidental exposure Tuesday. Personal information in the email included names, social security numbers and phone numbers. Chris Lafferty, the county administrator, inadvertently shared the information in a county-wide email sharing health…
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MA: Medical billing service notifies patients of ransomware incident
Massachusetts-headquartered Doctors’ Management Service, Inc. provides medical billing services to physicians and hospitals. You may never have heard of them, but your hospital or physician might have provided them with your protected health information if your doctor or hospital contracts with them. This week, DMS sent notice of what they strangely describe as a “recent…
TX: EmCare Says Patient and Employee Personal Data Were Hacked
Jim Silver and Hailey Waller report: EmCare Inc. recently learned an unauthorized party obtained access to a number of employees’ email accounts that contained the personal information of as many as 60,000 individuals, 31,000 of which are patients, the company said in an email. On Feb. 19, the physician-services provider determined the accounts contained some…
Did ransomware claim a victim or did two doctors just make a poor decision?
An article by William Maruca of FoxRothschild is headlined, “Ransomware Claims A Victim.” It discusses the case of Brookside ENT, whose doctors decided to shutter their practice and retire a year early after a ransomware attack that encrypted their patient data, billing information, scheduling information, and even their backups. In other words, the attacker successfully…
India: Rising Cybercrime Frontier
For the past year or more, I’ve been receiving numerous tips and notifications from trusted researchers about leaks and breaches involving entities in India. While some of the incidents involve alleged miscreants, other incidents involve human error or misconfiguration situations. But as many of us have experienced and reported, when it comes to data protection…
Blue Cross of Idaho Notice of Privacy Breach
Boise, Idaho (April 12, 2019) – Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service, Inc. (“Blue Cross of Idaho”) is providing notice to certain members of a recent incident involving protected health information (“PHI”) which qualifies as privacy breach. On March 21, 2019, an unauthorized user accessed Blue Cross of Idaho’s online provider portal with the intent…