As regular readers know by now, DataBreaches.net compiles data from health data breaches in the U.S. for Protenus, Inc. For the past few years, Protenus published monthly statistics and analyses, but this year, shifted to a quarterly report with more analyses and some fascinating proprietary data. Here’s an example of what you’ll find in their…
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St. Mary’s Hospital Campus in Jefferson City notifies 301,000 of limited PHI left behind in a 2014 move
And this is why I always wait to close out monthly stats in healthcare. The following incident just showed up on HHS’s public breach tool today as having been reported to them on July 30, and affecting 301,000 patients. St. Mary’s Hospital’s notice, below, indicates that the entity was not sure of the number affected. …
Confluence Health discloses patient data breach after employee email account hacked
Jefferson Robbins reports: Confidential patient information may have been released in an email breach at Confluence Health, the Wenatchee medical organization said in a Saturday press statement. The information contained in an employee’s breached email account may have included “some patient information” including name and treatment, the press release said, but no financial information was…
MO: Blue Springs Family Care notifies 44,979 patients after ransomware attack
I read an article recently that cited a study by Cryptonite claiming that according to HHS’s breach tool, it appears that ransomware attacks are down in the healthcare sector this year. My mental response was just to shrug because I’ve already declared time of death on using HHS’s breach tool as any kind of serious…
Hackers stole data of PM Lee and 1.5 million patients in ‘major cyberattack’ on SingHealth
Today reports: In the biggest and most serious cyberattack yet on Singapore, hackers last month broke into SingHealth‘s IT systems to steal the data of 1.5 million patients and records of the outpatient medication given to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the authorities said on Friday (July 20). Read more on Today. Here is the…
Update: Med Associates notified 270,000 patients about hack detected in March
On June 14, medical claims processor Med Associates issued a press release notifying an unspecified number of patients of a hacking incident. The firm had become aware of unusual activity in their system on March 22. Now Brian Nearing of the Times Union has an update that indicates that more than 270,000 New York residents…