On January 9, Central Kansas Orthopedic Group posted a breach notice on their website. Today, the incident, which they reported to HHS on January 28, was added to HHS’s breach tool. From the provider’s notice: Central Kansas Orthopedic Group (“CKOG”) recently discovered that an unauthorized party or group gained access to its computer system. CKOG…
MA: Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s hit by ransomware attack
Boston25 News reports: A malware attack has disabled a computer system with Children’s Hospital affiliates, according to a spokesperson. The Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s (PPOC) reported a large outage affecting more than 500 primary care doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants across the state. The outage is only affecting offices that are affiliated with…
NY: Insider wrongdoing breach results in more than 200 felony counts against former ACM Global Laboratory employee
Speaking of privacy breaches that might lead to patient lawsuits, read this report by Charles Molineaux, which begins: A former health care worker with ACM Global Laboratory faces hundreds of felony charges, accused of illegally rifling through confidential medical records, for more than two years, in what her alleged target said was a hunt for…
Data breach exposes Altice employee, Optimum customer information
James T. Madore reports: A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former employees and a small number of customers, the company said. Altice, the provider of Optimum cable television and internet services, said in…
Why, oh why, don’t some entities respond to notifications about leaking patient data, Wednesday edition
Since the summer of 2019, this site has occasionally reported on findings by WizCase researchers, such as our report in October on multiple entities that they had discovered leaking medical or health data. Today, WizCase reported on three more leaks that they discovered leaking patient data. They shared their findings exclusively with DataBreaches.net. The first…
Former Fifth Third employees stole customer info, gave to outside group
John London reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach at Fifth Third Bank and it appears to be an inside job. According to Fifth Third, “a small number of employees” stole personal data from the bank. Read more on WLWT.