From their press release: The Oregon Clinic announced today that a data security incident may have affected protected health information (PHI) within an email account. On March 9, 2018, The Oregon Clinic learned that an unauthorized third party accessed an email account. The Oregon Clinic immediately disabled the unauthorized access to the account and began…
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1.13M Patient Records Breached From January to March 2018
Proprietary data from Protenus shows disclosed breaches are just one one-thousandth of the actual risk health systems routinely carry 1,129,744 patient records were breached between January and March 2018, according to new data released today in the Protenus Breach Barometer. Published by Protenus, an artificial intelligence platform used by top health systems to analyze every…
Welcome new readers from Seton Hall Law
Welcome to all new readers from Seton Hall Law School and attendees at the Artificial Intelligence Conference this week. On this site, you’ll find news stories on data breaches from all sectors and from around the world. You’ll also find original investigations and reporting on breaches that you won’t find on other sites. Browse the…
Illinois incorrectly mailed out personal information to more than 4,000 people
Bill Lukitsch reports: Personal financial and medical information of more than 4,000 people was mailed to the wrong addresses earlier this year, two state agencies announced Friday. “Notices containing personal information were mailed to 4,136 individuals at incorrect addresses,” a news release from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services and Department of Human…
Fasthealth Security incident continues to leak out and confuse the public
The FastHealth breach is confusing the heck out of patients and employees. I’m getting inquiries from folks who are understandably suspicious because they never heard of the firm or can’t figure out how their details got caught up in this all. Others see news reports and realize that an entity has no connection to them,…
Integrated Rehab Consultants notifying patients after potential breach first discovered in 2016
From their press release: On December 2, 2016, Integrated Rehab Consultants(“IRC”) was contacted by a healthcare researcher regarding IRC data that was present on a public repository. IRC immediately commenced an investigation and determined that an IRC vendor provided IRC data to another third-party vendor who then inadvertently uploaded the data to a public repository. …