There’s a somewhat interesting follow-up to a situation DataBreaches.net first reported in February. Back then, DataBreaches.net had reported that 22,000 patients from several health care providers had their PHI exposed on an FTP server that Patterson Dental used to provide support documentation for its Eaglesoft software. That report was based on information and screenshots provided by a researcher….
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Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group notifies patients of Patterson FTP server incident
Back in February, this site reported that a Patterson Dental anonymous FTP server was leaking patient data, according to a security researcher who had discovered the problem and reported it to them and then this site. One of the entities, the Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group, had patient data caught up in that leak, and…
Dentrix vulnerability still poses risk to patient data: researcher
In early 2014, and over on PHIprivacy.net, I published some posts expressing concern about a vulnerability in Dentrix software, Dentrix’s claims at the time that its G5 product incorporated “encryption,” and their subsequent decision that the firm would not individually notify all customers that what the customers had been sold as “encryption” was not encryption. Following up on the public posts,…
Dentrix claims it encrypts their data, but does it?
A few weeks ago, I had no idea what Dentrix software was. Now I’ve seen it mentioned in connection with two recent breaches involving PHI (the first one was this breach, involving an older version of Dentrix). Such coincidences often get my attention. Dr. Rob Meaglia is a dentist in Rocklin, California. According to his December…