In December, INTEGRIS Health disclosed a cyberattack in November in which threat actors contacted patients directly to extort them when INTEGRIS wouldn’t pay their demands. DataBreaches subsequently reported additional details. On February 6, INTEGRIS updated its breach notice. The updated website notice incorporates the kind of language that advocates for transparency and data protection may…
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Quest Diagnostics pays $5M after mixing patient medical data with hazardous waste
Jessica Lyons reports: Quest Diagnostics has agreed to pay almost $5 million to settle allegations it illegally dumped protected health information – and hazardous waste – at its facilities across California. This sum won’t hurt at all for the corporation, one of the largest clinical medical lab networks in the US. In all, Quest is…
Ca: Hamilton’s Paramedic Service mistakenly sent patient info to wrong hospitals
Roger Collins reports: The Hamilton Paramedic Service says it has been mistakenly sending the personal information of some of its patients to the wrong hospital. Over the last four years, according to the municipal healthcare service, some paramedics have accidentally selected the incorrect hospital when submitting a patient’s records in correspondence to where they were…
Atlanta Women’s Health Group notifying patients of April 2023 data breach
John Shirek reports that Atlanta Women’s Health Group just notified more than 30,000 patients about a data breach that occurred in April, 2023. As is too often the case, the incident resulted in the theft of patients’ protected health information. 11Alive reproduced part of the letter sent to patients, which says: “…while the unauthorized user…
Hospitals across country issued patients wrong prescriptions due to system glitch
In the world we live in, it’s understandable that people wondered whether a “glitch” was really just a “glitch” or if it reflected a cyberattack. The Times of Israel reports: Hospitals across the country issued prescriptions to patients for the wrong medicines over some time due to a problem with an administration system, the Health…
COVID Test Data Breach: 1.3 Million Patient Records Exposed Online
Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to vpnMentor about a non-password protected database that contained nearly 1.3 million records, which included COVID-19 testing information and personally identifiable information such as the patient’s name, date of birth, and passport number. Jeremiah Fowler writes: The publicly exposed database contained an estimated 1.3 million records that included 118,441…