CA: Enloe Medical Center also notifying patients after Blackbaud ransomware...
Add Enloe Medical Center to those notifying donors and patients because of the ransomware incident that Blackbaud disclosed in July. You can read their notification here.
View ArticleCU Collections Notifies Customers of Data Security Incident
The following press release was released on Friday, September 11, after 5 pm. It appears to be the same press release CU Collections issued on July 29, with the exception that this one specifically...
View ArticleSC: In September, Roper St. Francis was busy sending notifications on two...
On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is...
View ArticleInterim Report on the Blackbaud Breach: 3.4 Million Patients and Counting
The Blackbaud ransomware incident disclosed on July 16 will likely end up being the largest or one of the largest breaches of the year involving patient information. I’ve been reading disclosures from...
View ArticleAre covered entities unnecessarily giving fundraisers PHI on patients?
I have no doubt that numerous sites will start generating “lessons learned” or “five takeaways” from the Blackbaud breach — if they haven’t done so already. And perhaps one of the consequences of this...
View ArticleHIPAA Business Associate Pays $2.3 Million to Settle Breach Affecting...
A second big settlement from HHS this week (you can find the first one here). HHS’s press release concerning a case that was previously reported on this site in 2014 follows. The incident also resulted...
View ArticleLegal action underway over University of Cumbria data breach
Cumbria Crack reports: Students, staff and partners of universities across the UK who may have had their personal details leaked online are preparing to take legal action against the organisations...
View ArticleCustomers’ bank details stolen as hackers target Staffordshire firm
Richard Guttridge reports: Customers at an IT company say they have lost thousands of pounds after the firm’s website was hacked and their bank details stolen. Police are investigating following a data...
View ArticleInspector General’s Report Confirms CBP Contractor Was Hacked, Resulting In...
Tim Cushing reports an update on a 2019 breach previously noted on this site; Last year, a CBP vendor suffered a data breach affecting more than 100,000 people who had crossed the border at...
View ArticleAL: Some Pell City utility customers may have suffered data breach
Taylor Mitchell reports: Some customers who pay the city of Pell City via paper check for their utility bills may have had their data breached according to the municipality and Valley Bank. City...
View ArticleTX: Odessa residents suffer from second Click2Gov breach
Joshua Skinner reports: The city of Odessa recently had a data breach involving its online payment web portal, and this isn’t the first time it’s happened. The breach only affected users of the online...
View ArticleUniversity Hospital Limerick writing to 630 patients after alleged major data...
David Raleigh reports: University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is in the process of sending letters to over 600 patients following an alleged major data breach concerning patient data, including details of...
View ArticleBlackbaud Data Breach: Non-Profit Foundations (Part One)
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe has begun a series of articles on the Blackbaud breach. He begins with Blackbaud’s initially inaccurate claims that no Social Security numbers, bank account data, or...
View ArticleMedical data of 150 Toronto hospital patients allegedly used to extort money...
Katherine DeClerq reports: A Toronto hospital says that roughly 150 patients have been impacted by a data breach after a third-party employee allegedly stole medical reports in an effort to extort...
View ArticleUK: Wisepay: School payments service hit by cyber-attack
BBC reports: Parents who made payments to UK schools in recent days via the Wisepay service have been warned their card details have been compromised. Wisepay said a hack of its website meant an...
View ArticleA prison video visitation service exposed private calls between inmates and...
Zack Whittaker reports: Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown. Visitors are unable to see their loved ones serving time, forcing friends and families to use...
View ArticleData leak at Covid testing call center under investigation
NL Times reports: The Dutch data protection authority AP is investigating whether health service GGD is complying with privacy rules with its coronavirus test line, the call center where Netherlands...
View ArticleKY: Breach of city contractor e-mail put some city workers info at risk
Steve Rogers reports: Some current and former Lexington city employees’ personal information was put at risk when a third-party contractor’s e-mail server was hacked in July. The city was notified on...
View ArticleCa: Western students alerted about security breach at exam monitor Proctortrack
Andrew Lupton reports: A security breach of Proctortrack, the software Western University uses to monitor student exams remotely, is adding new fuel to a debate raging on campus over privacy concerns...
View ArticleMisconfigured cloud storage bucket exposed Pfizer drug safety-related reports...
For lo, these many years, DataBreaches.net has been reminding everyone that not all leaks or breaches involving medical or sensitive personal health information are covered by HIPAA. Today’s story is...
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