Updated June 1: External counsel for the hospital notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that this incident resulted in notifications to 42,336 people and that those affected were offered two years of Experian credit and identity monitoring services. Updated June 3: It seems that on May 28, they notified HHS that they notified 57,379, so…
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NZ: New Zealand, hacker attack: Zeppelin ransomware blocks patient care at Waikato DHB
Marco A. De Felice writes: More than a week after the May 18 cyber attack, the computer systems of the Waikato District Health Board (Waikato DHB) have not yet been restored. Some scheduled surgeries in DHB’s five hospitals have been postponed, while non-urgent cases are postponed until all IT systems are back in operation. From…
Bengaluru civic body faces flak over data breach of Covid patients
Devina Sengupta&Akshatha M report: Covid-19 data records of those who have tested in Bengaluru were out in the public domain for some time, which is a clear violation of IT rules around data privacy and can lead to misuse of the information, experts have said. Free Software Movement of India, a coalition of organisations working on data privacy, on Tuesday…
Zocdoc says ‘programming errors’ exposed access to patients’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Zocdoc says it has fixed a bug that allowed current and former staff at doctor’s offices and dental practices to access patient data because their user accounts weren’t properly decommissioned. The New York-based company revealed the issue in a letter to the California attorney general’s office, which requires companies with more than 500 residents…
Riagg files of thousands of patients open and exposed in a basement
The this post uses machine translation of a report in Dutch. It concerns the discovery of patient files on CDs found unsecured in the basement of a building that, until 2015, was a former mental health institution — the Riagg Rijnmond Foundation. Rutger de QuayRik Wassens report that the young man who found the files…
NY: EMT posted patient’s confidential info from ambulance, alleges lawsuit
The Staten Island Advance reports: Thanksgiving 2019 is a day one Stapleton resident will never forget. But for all the wrong reasons. An emergency medical technician posted Jermaine Williams’ confidential medical information and cell-phone number online that night without his consent, a lawsuit alleges. And others saw it, William’s lawyer said. At the time, Williams…