Pharmaceutical company Shire is notifying an unspecified number of individuals that their personal and medical information was on a laptop stolen from an employee’s car in Washington D.C. The laptop, which was issued by Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. was stolen on December 30th and its theft was reported to the police immediately. Investigation into…
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That Radiology Regional Center vendor’s breach potentially affected almost half a million patients
When Radiology Regional Center in Florida disclosed that paper records had been lost or fallen off the truck of its vendor, Lee County Solid Waste Division, they reported that they believed that they had retrieved all the records, but they were notifying all potentially affected individuals: Radiology Regional Center has advised potentially impacted patients to (1) place a…
Memphis man accused of using stolen patient identity information to defraud banks of $1.6 million
Fox13 reports that Jeremy Jones of Memphis was indicated in federal court for his role in a bank fraud scheme that involved more than $1.6 million. The affidavit of complaint against Jeremy Jones said he started stealing identities of patients of Memphis Neurology back in 2011, and he used those identities to bilk various banks…
Hack by Anonymous created hassles for hospital patients during Flint water crisis
I don’t care WHO you are or what your cause it. Stop hacking hospitals in ways that interfere with or delay – in any way – patient care. Just stop it. Gary Ridley reports that Anonymous is being blamed for one such interruption: A cyber attack by the online “hacktivist” group Anonymous that was intended as…
FL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out of Vendor’s Truck
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its records disposal vender (sic), Lee County Solid Waste Division (“Lee County”), that, on that same date, paper records containing the personal information of Radiology Regional Center’s…
22,000 dental patients’ info exposed on unsecured Eaglesoft FTP server
Eaglesoft software by Patterson Dental is a popular patient management system. But just as one security researcher had concerns about patient data security in Henry Schein’s Dentrix G5 software, he’s also had concerns about Eaglesoft, albeit for different reasons. He contacted this site on February 6 and notified CERT of his concern: Eaglesoft does seem to…