Ken Curtis reports: Flowers Hospital has sent letters to people whose lab work performed there warning that their identity may have been stolen and used to file fraudulent income tax returns. A copy of the letter made available to WDHN states the files were stolen between June, 2013 and February, 2014. Read more on DothanFirst….
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45 CHS hospitals were affected by the Oracle Health outage
This is reportedly all resolved by now, but on April 25, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that dozens of hospitals affiliated with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were experiencing IT outages after data storage linked to their Oracle Health EHRs was accidentally deleted: The hospitals have reverted to paper for patient records, with the issue expected…
Court denies Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss claims arising out of point-of-sale data breach
Ryan M. Martin of Winston & Strawn LLP writes: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois recently denied the retail grocery chain Schnuck Markets’ motion to dismiss various claims arising from a December 2012 data breach in which hackers gained access to Schnucks’ credit/debit card processing systems. By mid-March 2013, both customers’ banks and Schnucks’…
Alabama Hospital Asks Judge To Nix Data Breach Class Action
Flowers Hospital in Alabama has asked the federal court to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit over an insider breach because the plaintiffs have failed to allege any actual misuse or harm. Read more on Law360.com (paywall).
Attorney: Flower Hospital files not adequately protected, lawsuit filed
More on the insider breach at Flowers Hospital previously noted on this blog: An attorney claims files containing personal information of patients were stolen from a place inside Flowers Hospital that had limited security and may have been accessible to many people including the public. “I don’t know how many were taken but we have…