Seen on dailynews.kaango.com, another Bizmatics client discloses the breach to their patients: (DAILY NEWS) PUBLIC NOTICE: HIPAA Breach Notification. CA Health and Longevity Institute would like to alert patients that in 2015 cyber intruders may have accessed confidential patient information that was stored on an electronic health record system. The clinic uses an electronic health…
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Another Bizmatics, Inc. client notifies 7.500 patients of hack
Well, this is a bit different. Lafayette Pain Care, PC in Indiana notified HHS on May 9 about hacking/IT incident that affected 7,500 patients. In trying to track it down (there’s nothing that I could find on their web site), I came across a media report from May 10 that links this to the Bizmatics,…
Eye Associates of Pinellas notifying 87,000 patients of Bizmatics breach (update2)
On May 5, Southeast Eye Institute, P.A. (dba Eye Associates of Pinellas) notified HHS that it was notifying 87,314 patients of an incident they coded as “hacking/IT incident.” There is no statement on their web site at this time and I can find nothing online that explains the incident. DataBreaches.net has contacted the practice requesting a statement…
Pain Treatment Centers of America notifies 19,397 patients of Bizmatics breach
Ouch. The Pain Treatment Centers of America and Interventional Surgery Institute in Arkansas have been notifying HHS and 19,397 patients about a security incident involving their vendor, Bizmatics. I had reported last month that Bizmatics’ breach impacted at least 30,000 patients of two other clients. PTCOA becomes the third provider we now know about. I’ve emphasized some statements in PTCOA’s notice,…
The Worst Health Data Breaches in 2016
It’s relatively easy to identify which were the biggest breaches involving health data that were disclosed in 2016, but which of the hundreds of breaches disclosed were the worst ones if you look beyond the numbers? As in past years, we learned of devices with sensitive unencrypted health information being stolen from vehicles, paper records were found where they…
NEW: Monthly stats for health/med breaches
People have often asked me if I compile stats on the reports on my site. I haven’t, but am pleased to announce that I am now collaborating with Protenus to help them provide monthly stats for U.S. breaches involving health/medical data. You can read their first blog post on June incidents here. Here’s a snippet…