FL: Key Dental Group notifies patients because former EMR vendor will not...
The following is not your typical breach notification. It relates to a situation in which a business associate allegedly refuses to return the patient database despite its EULA and HIPAA obligation....
View ArticleValley Health sending letters to 857 patients possibly affected by security...
Valley Health is one of those affected by the recently disclosed Inova Health System breach. You can read a report on the Valley Health aspect on Winchester Star.
View ArticleAbout 2.65M patients at Charlotte’s Atrium Health hit with third-party data...
Caroline Hudson reports: About 2.65 million patients of Charlotte-based Atrium Health were recently hit with a data breach in which unauthorized parties gained access to their information. Hackers...
View ArticleNC: Wilmington city employees’ health insurance info exposed by email error...
Emily Featherston reports: Email is no stranger to being linked to cases of identity theft and data breaches. Most of the time, the thief sends a phishing message that coaxes information out of the...
View ArticleAmendments to data breach notification law in Colorado impact HIPAA-regulated...
Kiss that 60-days to notify patients HIPAA bit goodbye if you’re doing business in Colorado. Julie A. Sullivan and Loreli Wright of Greenberg Traurig, LLP write: Passed during the 2018 state...
View ArticleIA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s...
The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers...
View ArticleIndio Water Authority notifies residents of Click2Gov breach
In reviewing the Click2Gov breaches, I just discovered another one from October that I hadn’t posted on this site. Let’s remedy that now. Statement on Click2Gov Data Security Incident INDIO, CA...
View ArticleMedical Informatics sued by multiple states over 2015 breach
A 2015 hack of Medical Informatics stayed in the headlines for quite a while because it compromised the data, including health information, of 3.9 million people. In addition to suits filed by...
View ArticleFlorida contractor physicians’ group settles HHS claims after they failed to...
There is a follow-up to a 2014 breach reported on this site at the time. But it turns out there was an interesting twist to this case that HHS followed up. Here is their press release: Advanced Care...
View ArticleTwelve US states join for the first time to file multistate data breach lawsuit
Catalin Cimpanu has a good write-up about the multistate lawsuit against Medical Informatics that I noted earlier this week: Attorneys general from twelve US states have joined together to file the...
View ArticleAnother Click2Gov breach? Why is this still happening?
Hays Post reports: Authorities are investigating a data breach that may have affected hundreds of customers in Kansas. On Friday, the City of Topeka was notified by their Utility Billing Payment System...
View ArticleBaylor Scott & White Medical Center – Frisco notifies 47,000 patients after...
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Frisco, a joint venture managed by United Surgical Partners International (USPI), announced today it has sent letters to approximately 47,000 patients or...
View ArticleContra Costa Health Plan notifying patients after discovering contractor had...
It seems Contra Costa Health Plan discovered that a contractor that they had hired and who had access to EHR beginning on December 1, 2014 had used a falsified identity to get the contractor position....
View ArticleAlmost four dozen Click2Gov breaches later and almost 300,000 affected; data...
Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s...
View ArticleHammer Nutrition notifies customers after discovering hack of
A reader kindly sent in this notification from Hammer Nutrition: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL DATA BREACH Dear Valued Customer, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of an incident involving...
View ArticleClick2Gov breach in parking payment system in Canada might have exposed...
Shane Ross of CBC reports: Saint John has shut down its online system used to pay parking tickets after discovering a data breach that could have exposed customer names, addresses and credit card...
View ArticleBlue Cross: Theft of employee’s computer may have compromised 15,000...
Dave Bartkowiak Jr. reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Friday that the personal data of nearly 15,000 of Medicare Advantage members may have been compromised after an employee’s...
View ArticleExclusive: National Life Group denies claim by thedarkoverlord that they were...
Hackers claimed to have hacked hundreds of thousands of records from National Life Group, but investigation points to Sterling National Financial Group as the likely hacked entity The blackhat...
View ArticleA former NSA contractor accused of stealing a treasure trove of data offers...
Scott Shane has an update on the case of former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin, who is potentially facing more than 100 years in prison when you start adding up all the felony counts: A veteran...
View ArticleMom shocked to find driver’s license on metro Atlanta school website: Turns...
Joe Henke and Lauren Padgett report: A former volunteer with DeKalb County Schools was shocked by what she found when she typed her own name into Google recently – an image of her driver’s license...
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