Alex Burness has an update to a breach recently noted on this blog: Boulder Community Health has now identified a total of 16 patients — up from nine Wednesday — who have received letters from an anonymous source, containing copies of their own medical records stolen from an undetermined area around the hospital’s Foothills campus. In…
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No southern comfort for the FTC in a Georgia federal court?
If federal judge William S. Duffey, Jr. in the Northern District of Georgia decides his court has jurisdiction to hear LabMD’s challenge to the FTC’s authority to enforce data security for HIPAA-covered entities, the FTC may be in for a bumpy ride. In a hearing on May 7, Judge Duffey noted how burdensome consent orders…
What's with all these attacks on doctors' e-mail accounts – and what are you doing about it?
Sometimes it takes a few breaches before I notice a trend or general issue that I think needs to be addressed. This week, I found myself looking at so many reports of doctors’ e-mail accounts being compromised that I decided the topic deserved a post of its own. If you do not know what breaches…
Catholic Health Initiatives victim of DNS hijack; doctors' e-mails redirected (updated)
Natasha Chen reports that Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), some of whose doctors fell for a phishing scheme in January that compromised patient information in e-mails sent to and by the doctors, has fallen victim to an attack that also involved doctors’ e-mail accounts: For the second time in five months, patients’ information may have been compromised…
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center breach
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California notified 2,523 patients of a breach involving their business associates, Courier Express/Atlanta, Courier Express/Charlotte & Courier Express US, Inc. The breach, which occurred on February 14, was reported to HHS as involving “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of paper records. There is no statement that I could find on…
Court dismisses most of lawsuit over 2011 TRICARE/SAIC data breach
Andrew Scurria reports the latest on a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest breaches ever involving PHI – the theft of backup tapes from SAIC from an employee’s unattended vehicle in 2011. A D.C. federal judge on Friday gutted a wide-ranging multidistrict case seeking damages from the U.S. Department of Defense and security contractor Science…