Jesse Byrne reports: Hackers might have accessed the medical records and other personal information of tens of thousands of Medicaid recipients in November, Florida official announced late Friday. Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) said in a press release reported by The Associated Press that one of its employees was the “victim of a malicious phishing…
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Penn Medicine computer with patient info stolen
Mari A. Schaefer reports: About 1,000 patients at Penn Medicine are receiving letters saying a computer with some of their personal information on it was stolen. A laptop containing patient files was reported stolen from a car at the King of Prussia Mall parking lot on Nov. 30, according to a spokesperson at the University of Pennsylvania Health…
Miracle-Ear reports privacy breach of nearly 600 patients
Jackie Crosby reports: Plymouth-based hearing aid company Miracle-Ear is reporting that excerpts of 554 patient records were compromised in a security breach to its e-mail system. The incident occurred Oct. 24, when “an unknown and unauthorized intruder” gained access to the e-mail account of an employee of parent company Amplifon, which handles the accounts and…
SSM Health notifying 29,000 patients of insider-wrongdoing breach
Samantha Liss reports: SSM Health said that a former employee inappropriately accessed the medical records of its patients in multiple states. Unclear of the full extent, SSM said it’s notifying all 29,000 patients whose records were ever accessed by this former call center employee. […] The former employee inappropriately accessed certain records over an eight-month…
Colorado family practice notifies patients following hacking incidents
Longs Peak Family Practice, PC (“LPFP”) is notifying patients following a ransomware and hacking incident that were first detected on November 5. From their notification: LPFP immediately began investigating and took actions to attempt to secure the network, but the hacker executed malicious code within the network before it could be stopped. The malicious code…
PA: Employee-patient allegedly photographed during surgery files suit against Washington Hospital and others
Barbara Miller reports: An employee of Washington Hospital who had an operation at her workplace filed a complaint in Washington County Court against the institution, a doctor and several co-workers in connection with photos of her private parts that allegedly were taken and later shared. The plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, worked as a…