June 22 — CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin announced today that it has taken action after becoming aware of an incident that took place on April 23, 2020 in which an unapproved third party gained access to patient information. Though we have no evidence to confirm that information was actually viewed or obtained by the…
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Ministry still tracing cause of Indonesia’s COVID-19 patient data leak
Antara News reports an update to a breach that first came to light when a data broker listed the data for sale on RaidForums. The Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) currently continues to trace the reason behind the alleged hacking of a database containing information of the country’s COVID-19 patients that was circulated in…
New York Patients’ Data Breach Claims Sent Back to State Court
Mary Anne Pazanowski reports an update to litigation that stemmed from a breach in 2018 that was disclosed by Episcopal Health Services in November 2018 and then updated in 2019. A group of New York patients claiming that Episcopal Health Services Inc. failed to protect their private information from unauthorized disclosures can proceed in state…
Why weren’t patients told that their data was dumped publicly?
On May 13, DataBreaches.net reported that Ako ransomware operators revealed that they had attacked North Shore Pain Management in Massachusetts. The threat actors announced the attack and dumped some of the practice’s files when the medical practice did not pay their ransom demand. The data dump, consisting of more than 4 GB of more than…
UK: Patient privacy breach at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance
Bruce Corcoran reports: A Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA) employee went snooping into the health records of 40 patients in recent months; they are no longer with the organization. Justin Turkington, director of human resources and occupational health and safety for the alliance, said the information breach took place over a matter of months – from…
CO: Rangely District Hospital unable to access some patient records after ransomware attack
The Herald Times reports: Rangely District Hospital (RDH) will send notices this week to patients whose records may have been involved in a ransomware attack in April 2020. According to a press release issued June 8, parts of the hospital’s computer network were attacked by ransomware, including some files containing patients’ health information and other…