Bay Sleep Clinic (BSC) has more than one dozen locations in California offering sleep medicine diagnostic services. Their site advertises that BSC: Provides monitoring during a complete sleep cycle in our fully equipped, comfortable setting. That monitoring appears to include video monitoring of their patients who, after being wired up to monitors, attempt to sleep in one of their…
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More Rehab Billing Solutions clients notify their patients of exposed PHI
Back in September, DataBreaches.net reported on an exposed MongoDB database that had been discovered by MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery. The database contained protected health information from tens of thousands of patients seen at dozens of clinics that were clients of EMR4All and Rehab Billing Solutions, companies owned by Todd Jones. Since that report, we have begun…
NY: KinetoRehab Physical Therapy notifies patients of laptop theft
A physical therapy clinic in New York is notifying more than 650 patients after a laptop with protected health information was stolen. KinetoRehab Physical Therapy, PLLC learned of the theft on September 16, and although there was security footage showing the thief, police have not apprehended the thief nor recovered the laptop. “Patients who were seen…
HCMC Employee Sentenced for Fraudulently Using Patients’ Credit Cards
ABC5 reports: A Hennepin County Medical Center employee who pleaded guilty to fraudulently using patients’ credit cards was sentenced Monday. Thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth Tavarez of Fridley pleaded guilty in September to one count of identity theft. On Monday, she received a stay of imposition and will be on probation for three years. She will also have…
NHS patients being put ‘at risk’ because of cybersecurity flaws
Tom Cheshire reports: A Sky News investigation has discovered the NHS trusts putting patients at risk by not protecting their data online. Seven NHS trusts, serving more than two million people, spent nothing on cybersecurity in 2015. Sky News worked with security experts to find serious flaws in their cybersecurity, which could be easily exploited by…
Follow-up: Investigation Confirms No Patient or Employee Information Compromised in Cyberattack on Appalachian Regional Health system
ARH has issued an update to its report of a ransomware attack that occurred in August: After a thorough investigation into the late August cyberattack on the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) system, findings from independent computer forensic experts as well as federal authorities have determined that no ARH patient or employee health or financial information…