On September 9, Chris Vickery (previously referred to as “TE” in earlier coverage) notified the KDHE that what appeared to be the entire Kansas State Self Insurance Fund SIMS database was exposed online, as were databases from other agencies and organizations. KDHE immediately notified Systema Software, who promptly secured the leaking files. Vickery also contacted DataBreaches.net, who reported on the leak and the…
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NY: Hack of Health Insurer Excellus May Have Exposed 10M Personal Records
AP reports: A health insurer in western New York and affiliates said Wednesday that their computers were targeted last month in a cyberattack that may have provided unauthorized access to more than 10 million personal records. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, headquartered in Rochester, and Lifetime Healthcare Companies said they’re offering affected individuals in upstate New York…
Duty of confidentiality trumps your desire to defend your reputation
Remember when Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional Medical Center were fined by federal and state agencies for breaching patient privacy? They had willfully disclosed patient details to the media after the media had reported the patient’s complaint about them. At the time, I noted that just because a patient discloses information, that does not give the covered entity the…
UCLA Health breach notification results in confusion, more breaches?
The massive breach at UCLA Health was bad enough, but now it looks like their breach notification resulted not only in confusion, but a second HIPAA privacy breach. Lisa Zamosky reports: Steve Reasner recently learned that because he is a patient at UCLA Health, his personal information may now be in the hands of criminals….
CT: Backus Hospital sends 360 letters to patients regarding possible data breach
John Penney reports: A Norwich man received a letter from The William W. Backus Hospital on Saturday informing him of a possible data breach involving several pieces of sensitive patient information, one of more than 300 patients the hospital sent similar notifications to this month. Kenneth Keely Jr., of Williams St. provided the The Bulletin with…
UK: Confusion over patient data on lost hospital stick
It seemed like a straightforward breach disclosure, but apparently there’s still some confusion swirling around what happened with an East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust USB stick that was found by a member of the public. The Eastbourne Herald reports: The husband of a woman whose confidential patient details were found on a memory stick which…